MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will discuss the terms of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which was ratified in 2018, during a visit to Mexico, a said Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. Monday.
“We will have a summit to discuss the terms of the trade agreement treaty … in Mexico,” Lopez Obrador said at a regular press conference.
Mexico’s Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier said in an interview published Monday in national newspaper El Universal that the United States is “distorting” the USMCA by filing labor complaints against Mexico, which is in the process of update its labor laws.
Lopez Obrador said “there is no problem” with the United States when asked about the economy minister’s remarks on Monday.
The foreign ministries of the three countries announced in June a trilateral summit between Mexican leaders, scheduled for December.
Lopez Obrador said on 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 he had ” nothing…on the radar” for November.
(Reporting by Raul Cortes and Kylie Madry; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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