Mexico City, July 10 (UNI) Mexican officials will meet their U.S. counterparts in Washington next week to hold “the best possible negotiation” on the newly imposed Trump trade tariffs, President Claudia Sheinbaum said yesterday.
At her daily press conference, the president said a government delegation will travel to DC tomorrow to begin talks on several issues, as she had previously announced during a phone call with US President Donald Trump at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Canada in June.
“This week, a team from the Mexican government is traveling to the United States to work on this global agreement that we discussed at the G7 with President Trump,” Sheinbaum said, adding that the delegation will be led by Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, and will also include representatives from the secretariats of the Treasury and Foreign Affairs.
The agenda will go beyond the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on free trade to seek broader strategic collaboration on three key issues: security, immigration and trade. Security will centre on the shared US-Mexico border, while immigration talks will address regional pressure from migratory flows, and trade will focus on the possibility of new tariffs.
“Of course, we will always seek the best conditions for Mexico,” said Sheinbaum.
The Mexican premier noted her administration recently unveiled a strategy to strengthen the domestic pharmaceutical industry and added that the United States is not the only country with which it can trade.
“The decisions often come from the United States government, and what we seek is to provide support in order to generate, for example, in the area of copper, other export schemes, because copper is needed in many parts of the world,” the president said.
Mexico has been one of the US tariffs biggest targets, with a 50% tariff set to be imposed on copper exports starting August 1.
The US President has so far sent tariff letters to 22 countries, informing their leaders of tariffs ranging from 25 to 50%.
