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NAFTA renegotiation talks arrive amid diverging interests, neoliberal goals
16-Aug-2017 Tele Sur
As Mexico, Canada and the U.S. head into potentially thorny talks, critics say that banks and multinationals will be first to reap the benefits.
An issue for upcoming NAFTA talks: Getting Mexicans a pay raise
10-Aug-2017 CTV
The cost of Mexican labour will be an issue in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, participants acknowledged at an auto-industry conference, touching on one of the key sectors up for discussion.
Canada v Mexico: Trump seeks to divide and conquer in Nafta negotiations
8-Aug-2017 The Guardian
Both countries are scrambling to best handle a president who ranks among the more unpredictable elements of the upcoming negotiations.
Thousands of Mexicans hold protest against NAFTA
8-Aug-2017 Press TV
Mexican farmers and workers have staged a mass rally in the capital to voice their opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA, with the United States and Canada.
NAFTA’s ’broken promises’: these farmers say they got the raw end of trade deal
7-Aug-2017 NPR
The net effect of trade agreements like NAFTA is to put more power, more authority with the large multinational companies and by extension, take that power away from family farmers.
‘This deal will make me look terrible’: Full transcripts of Trump’s calls with Mexico and Australia
7-Aug-2017 Washington Post
Transcripts of two conversations President Trump had with foreign leaders: one with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and another with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
NAFTA schedule: A cabinet dinner to launch seven rounds of trade talks
4-Aug-2017 National Post
A high-level dinner of cabinet members from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico will mark the start of NAFTA negotiations, followed by a seven-course diet of negotiating rounds crammed in rapid succession.
NAFTA parties prepare for August negotiations launch in Washington
3-Aug-2017 ICTSD
Canada, Mexico, and the United States are preparing for the formal launch of negotiations to upgrade the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Mexico talks trade deals with Japan
2-Aug-2017 Tax-news
Officials from Mexico and Japan have met to discuss deepening trade ties between the two countries.
Mexican minister supports Japan’s leadership in achieving TPP without US
31-Jul-2017 Japan Times
Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray pledged Monday that his country will bolster cooperation with Japan to achieve a Pacific Rim free trade pact without the United States, praising Tokyo’s leadership in realizing the deal.
EU-Mexico FTA - EU text proposals (July 2017)
21-Jul-2017 European Commission
All texts as available as of 18 July 2017
Commission publishes reports following negotiation rounds with Mexico and Mercosur
20-Jul-2017 European Commission
The Commission has just published reports summarising the progress made during the latest negotiating rounds for the EU-Mexico and EU-Mercosur trade agreements.
Reforms open Mexico’s oil and gas to investor rush… and here comes NAFTA
3-Jul-2017 Tele Sur
The rush on Mexico’s undeveloped oil and gas reserves comes just as Donald Trump has initiated a process to re-negotiate the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
China open to free-trade agreement with Mexico
29-Jun-2017 Reuters
China is open to negotiating a free-trade agreement with Mexico, said the Chinese ambassador to the country, a fillip for Mexico as it faces uncertainty over its trade deals with the United States.
U.S., Mexico clear way for NAFTA with new deal on sugar trade
9-Jun-2017 Politico
The deal in principle could clear away at least one contentious issue between the two governments standing in the way of upcoming NAFTA talks.
U.S. and Mexico sugar talks go into overtime after day of drama
6-Jun-2017 Reuters
They are seen as a precursor to the more complex discussions on the North American Free Trade Agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
Mexican, US legislators meet on NAFTA, security, trade
6-Jun-2017 Washington Post
Mexico has become a major importer of U.S. natural gas and gasoline, and now apparently wants that trade brought under NAFTA.
Mexico set to review rules of origin to help NAFTA renegotiation
31-May-2017 The Globe and Mail
Mexico’s foreign minister says the country is “inevitably” set to review rules of origin when renegotiating the North American free-trade agreement.
Mexico vows cooperation with Japan to bring TPP into effect
26-May-2017 Japan Times
Mexico is ready to work with Japan to push for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to take effect without the United States, said Juan Carlos Baker, Mexican deputy minister for foreign trade.
Harmony in the private sector on NAFTA priorities
18-May-2017 Politico
US lobby groups to team up with their Mexican counterparts to establish a common agenda before talks begin