His government Mexico invited yesterday Monday (31.3.2025) that of the USA Keep in force the free trade agreement linking the two states and Canada, before implementing tomorrow’s new US customs duties, which is expected to be presented by President Donald Trump.
The Canada -US – Mexican agreement is beneficial and “for the three countries”, and must “remain in force”, Mexican Foreign Minister Juan Ramon de la Fuente said by phone to American counterpart Marco Rubio.
De La Fuente “reiterated” that as the agreement “benefited the three countries, it must be maintained and its revision must begin the fastest”, the Secretariat of International Relations (the Mexican Foreign Ministry) said through X. Review of the agreement, Trump.
The current trilateral agreement (T-mec in the terminology of the Mexican government, Cusma, in Canada, USMCA in the US) was signed at the end of November 2018. Mexico, as well as all other US trading partners, holds its breath away in view The US president is expected to reveal no later than Wednesday (2.4.2025).
“We will be very kind,” Donald Trump of the Oval Office assured yesterday, promising, not long or less, that his new initiative will guarantee the US “Renaissance”.
The Republican is expected to present at the latest tomorrow, if not already today, new customs duties, “reciprocal” to him, in every imported commodity. Its purpose is to tariff to be proportional to the tariff and tax treatment of US exported products in each country.
The new customs duties follows their imposition on steel and aluminum, as well as on vehicles.
De la Fuente and Rubio also discussed smuggling at the border of the two countries, according to Mexican diplomacy. The US Foreign Minister “referred to the fact that efforts should be doubled to control the illegal trafficking of weapons from the US to Mexico and other countries in the region”, always according to the Mexican Foreign Minister.
Rubio “thanked Mexico for the coordinated project” on issues related to “immigration and security”, which allowed, among other things, to reduce the flow of irregular immigrants to the US, according to the same source.
It was agreed to schedule a forthcoming visit by Marco Rubio to Mexico, always during Mexican diplomacy, which has not been made more specific to the timetable.