Mexico City | Reuters — U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss terms of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico (CUSMA) agreement, which was ratified in 2018, during a visit to Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday.
“We’ll have a summit to discuss terms of the trade agreement treaty… in Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said in a regular news conference.
Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier said in an interview published Monday in national newspaper El Universal that the U.S. is “distorting” CUSMA by filing labour complaints against Mexico, which is in the process of updating its labour laws.
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Lopez Obrador said “there’s no problem” with the United States when asked about the economy minister’s words Monday.
The three countries’ foreign ministries in June announced a trilateral summit between the leaders in Mexico, scheduled for December.
Lopez Obrador said Monday the meeting was scheduled for November, but a spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Mexico told Reuters the president was likely referring to the December summit and that it had “nothing… on the radar” for November.
The office of Canada’s Trade Minister Mary Ng, in a separate notice Sunday, said Ng and Clouthier are also scheduled to meet with U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai for “trialteral discussions” on Thursday and Friday this week in Vancouver.
Those discussions are to be held at the three countries’ Free Trade Commission meeting, Ng’s office said, and the officials will also “recognize the collaboration and successes” of CUSMA at a media event “on the occasion of (the agreement’s) second anniversary.”
— Reporting for Reuters by Raul Cortes and Kylie Madry. Includes files from Glacier FarmMedia Network staff.
