Trump will press T-MEC renegotiation with tariffs: Kenneth Smith

The US government seeks to accelerate the renegotiation of the Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada (T-MEC), expected by 2026, with the imposition of 25 percent tariffs on steel, aluminum and cars.Kenneth Smith Ramos, partner of Agon Consultores and former head of the T-MEC technical negotiation said in the framework of The Logistics World that while the signal that Mexico was exempt from new tariffs is positive, the coun…

The Jalisco industrialists are optimistic after yesterday the president of the United States, Donald Trump, decided to leave out reciprocal tariffs to Mexico and Canada as part of the T-MEC, says its coordinator, Antonio Lancaster-Jones González. “At the end of the day... Full note »

He reiterated his request for a rapid renegotiation of free trade agreements. The post Trump: "We must stay on guard," warns François Legault appeared first on Les Affaires.

Although Mexico and Canada have freed, for now, the reciprocal tariffs announced yesterday by Donald Trump, the president of the United States is already preparing the ground for the negotiation of the T-MEC that he called the “worst trade agreement ever made.” YOU CAN INTEREST: Uff Mexico and Canada breathe, get rid of reciprocal tariffs MAY INTEREST: Trump breaks rules of origin of the T-Mec with tariff measures on cars

As part of his announcement on Wednesday, April 2, Donald Trump stated that he will seek to eliminate the T-MEC, even though he proposed it, as he believes that “it is the worst deal for the United States.” This he declared in his event “Let’s make the United States rich again” in which Donald Trump explained the new tariff measures, in which he described the Treaty with Mexico and Canada as a disaster. The T-MEC that is currently referred to as…

The U.S. President hardens his trade stance and proposes to dismantle the trilateral agreement, which was renegotiated during his first term along with Mexico's then president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and then Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau