Mexico Begins Consultations With Producers to Redefine the USMCA Deal
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October 20, 2025 Hour: 10:40 am
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The goal is to reach January 2026 with a broad national position based on agreements among the different sectors.
On Sunday, Mexican Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced that the administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum is holding consultations with productive sectors to reach a cohesive position for the revision process of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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The Ministry has organized nine sectoral working groups in areas such as Common Telecommunications Infrastructure (ICT), agribusiness, vehicles, metalworking, the circular economy, aerospace, textiles, footwear, cement, and glass.
Ebrard remarked that he met with the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) and the labor movement, along with Secretary of Labor, Marath Bolaños, to listen to their priorities and strengthen the national negotiating position with the United States. The goal is to reach January 2026 with a broad national position based on deliberations, consultations, and agreements among the different sectors.
Eight state roundtables were also held in Coahuila, Oaxaca, Aguascalientes, Sonora, Tabasco, Hidalgo, Michoacán, and Tamaulipas to gather proposals from stakeholders linked to trade with North America.
The text reads, “Consultations on the upcoming USMCA review are moving forward across the country.”
Ebrard specified that all 30 economic sectors are being consulted, including the labor sector for the first time, to integrate their concerns and proposals into the negotiation strategy.
On October 14, Ebrard stated that the USMCA review is moving forward in a coordinated manner between Mexico, the U.S., and Canada, with the goal of reducing the effects of U.S. tariffs.
Before the CCE plenary session, he explained that the beginning of the year presented risks of trade disruption, but Mexico managed to establish an orderly and joint review process with Washington and Ottawa.
The USMCA review is scheduled for 2026, following its announcement in 2025, amid the tariff war launched by President Donald Trump. The agreement was signed in 2018 during Trump’s first term and entered into force on July 1, 2020, replacing the previous North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
teleSUR: JP
Source: EFE – El Financiero
