The Canadian government announced that it will make public consultations about the TMEC before the start of the review in 2026 of the commercial agreement between Mexico, the USA and Canada.
The decision, communicated by the Minister of Commercial Relations between Canada and the US, Dominic Leblanc, occurs a day after the US authorities announced a similar measure.
The administration of President Donald Trump will carry out in November the consultation that will evaluate the performance of the agreement during the past five years.
The beginning of these public consultations seems to indicate that Canada and the US will not reach a bilateral agreement that redefines their commercial and security relations, as the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had initially pointed out.
Carney, upon reaching power in April and after Washington’s decision to impose tariffs on trade with Canada, he indicated on numerous occasions that his government would negotiate a new bilateral relationship before the changes made by the Trump administration, regardless of the revision of the TMEC.
But on Tuesday, US ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, declared in an event that Washington wanted to reach a new agreement, greater than the existing one, with Ottawa but that “at least at this time, that will not happen.”
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This Wednesday, Canada’s Minister of Finance, Francois-Philippe Champagne, indicated that before the American position of “turning her back” to his American partner, “we must find ways to strengthen the Canadian economy and look for new markets.”
Precisely, the Canadian Prime Minister will be Thursday and Friday in Mexico to meet with President Claudia Sheinbaum with which she will deal with “Security, Infrastructure, Investments, Energy and Commerce.”
In the conversations between the two leaders, the renegotiation of the TMEC and the search for common positions before the US is expected to appear in a prominent place.
With EFE information.
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