Francisco André, ambassador of the European Union in Mexico, asked to defend the continuity of multilateral trade, which made the flow of imports and exports between both markets grow 4 times.
“We are facing the opportunity to defend the multilateral trade that has given us so many benefits and also reform it to guarantee its sustainability,” said the diplomat in the framework of the fifth edition of our International Boards Coparmex 2025.
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Mexico, Brazil, Canada and the European Union agree that international trade must be based on rules accepted by all and work responsibly, he recalled.
The European Union and Mexico are strategic partners, since we work together in good faith to achieve common objectives, we share values and principles, recalled the commercial representative of European countries in our country.
“All of that allows us to frankly dialogue political issues, environmental issues, human rights, energy and commerce and investment,” he recalled.
With dialogue and political commitment they reached agreements such as the modernization of the Global Agreement of the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mexico (Tlcuem), which has already been agreed in January 2025, he said.
The Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mexico will eliminate tariffs, non -tariff barriers and facilitate investments.
“This global agreement is the basis of our relationship through which we want to guide public and private capital to projects and sectors of the digital and energy transition,” he said.
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The European Union is a market of 450 million citizens and a robust reference currency.
“We are still Europe, but a Europe that relates to its friends and its partners as is the case of Mexico.”
Today the European Union is the second destination of Mexican exports and the second foreign investor in Mexico, he said.
“Our bilateral trade has grown 4 times since the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mexico in 2000 entered into force,” said Francisco André.
In the last 20 years, the investment of the European Union represents 30 percent of all the investment received in this country.
“All this we have achieved with a 1997 text according to how our life, our societies and our economies in the 90s,”
“Imagine a whole now everything we can achieve together, with a modernized global agreement of the 21st century, which allows us to develop all the potential of our economies.”
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“We are open for the business (Open for Business), we work to maintain our agenda, while we adapt and influence new economic trends,” said the European Union ambassador to Mexico.
“We continue to believe in bilateral trade, we continue to believe in agreements, balanced and fair, as we continue to want in relationships in which all parties win,” concluded Francisco André.
