The review of the Mexico and Canada (TMEC) Treaty will include new rules of origin and sector quotas, said Sergio Contreras Pérez, executive president of the Mexican Business Council of Foreign Trade, Investment and Technology (COMCE).
“There will be a review in 2026, which will have new conditions in the rules of origin and sector quotas,” said the businessman during the presentation of the XXXI Foreign Trade Congress.
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He added that the commercial agreement will continue for the advantages it offers to its members, but with new characteristics in a new regionalized commercial order.
“We will be reviewing metals, food and wood, non -ferrous metals, computers, and the automotive sector, are the sectors that we see that we have to be very attentive to the development of what is being conversation,” said the businessman.
Mexico will maintain the trend since 2023, as the main trade partner of the United States, he said.
Exports in the first quarter of the year grew 4.5 percent, despite the uncertainty generated by the commercial policy of the US government.
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“Mexico was consolidated in 2024 as the tenth export power of the world, with a record value of 617 thousand 100 million dollars and attracted 36 thousand 872 million dollars in direct foreign investment,” he said.
Contreras Pérez stressed that Mexico exports quality because it meets high international standards and regulations, so the seal must be “made in Mexico, quality.”
Mauricio Kuri, governor of Querétaro, said that his state occupies the first national place in the rule of law, according to the World Justice Project, which positions it as a reliable environment to do business.
He pointed out that, in the face of an international scenario in transformation, Mexico can only reach its potential if the government, private initiative, civil society and academy act in a coordinated manner.
Marco Antonio del Prete, Secretary of Sustainable Development of Querétaro, commented that the entity has been characterized by promoting foreign trade.
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He informed that, in 2024, he exported more than 17 billion dollars, mainly to the United States, but that he seeks to expand their markets to Europe and South America.
Del Prete explained that its logistics capacity has detonated the growth of strategic industries such as automotive, aerospace, plastics and food.
