Faced with Donald Trump’s economic threats against the country, the president of the International Chamber of Commerce Mexico (ICC), Claus von Wobeser, made available to the government all the tools that the organization has to help negotiate with the next president of the United States. Joined.
“We put ourselves at the orders of the government to support them in all the technical aspects of the treaty (TMEC), we are the only chamber that has specialists in all the different matters that affect international trade and I believe that we are really qualified to support them,” he said. in interview.
He added that the ICC’s tools and specialists can help in the process and that the organization is most interested in the Mexican government doing well.
“We are really very open to supporting them and to working closely with them for the benefit of the country,” he said.
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The president of the international organization commented that the Mexican government and the Ministry of Economy, headed by Marcelo Ebrard, must be “very prepared” because Trump is “clearly” an “aggressive negotiator,” as he has already shown on other occasions.
“I think that what the Mexican government is going to have to do is get very involved in the sense of being very prepared for an aggressive negotiation,” he said.
However, he stressed that the Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA) is beneficial for the trio of nations, so the United States knows what it could lose in the event of very aggressive trade policies against its main trading partner.
“The secretary (Marcelo Ebrard) must be given full support with all the technical issues, since without a doubt ICC Mexico is one of the chambers with the most experience on the subject,” he commented.
Prior to the US presidential elections, Donald Trump commented that he could impose 25% tariffs on all Mexican products if the Sheinbaum government does not combat organized crime as the Republican proposes.
For Claus von Wobeser, many of the American millionaire’s statements “were electoral campaign issues”, however, “we are already experiencing the pressure” he put against Mexico in the previous campaign, such as the construction of a wall on the border between both countries. .
“In some way it has to be taken as reservations, definitely yes, of course it is an issue that must be paid a lot of attention,” he mentioned.
However, he added that the main objective of Trump’s agenda will be to try to reduce the trade relationship with China, so Mexico would be the main winner.
“The United States needs the production of certain components for its own industrial production and clearly Mexico has had and has taken advantage of that great opportunity. So it really is in the interest of the United States to have a relationship with Mexico and to have free trade with Mexico,” he concluded.
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