Foreign Minister Juan Ramón de la Fuente received on Wednesday the Vice President and Minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services of Brazil, Geraldo Alckmin, who is in Mexico with a large business delegation with the aim of expanding the bilateral commercial relationship, in the midst of the tariff war unleashed by the United States.
In a statement, De la Fuente said that Alckmin makes “a two -day work visit in our country, in follow -up to the meeting held by President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, during the G7 meeting in Canada.”
“Vice President Alckmin will hold meetings today with different members of the Federal Cabinet of the Government of Mexico, will go to an official session in the Senate and meet with representatives of the Mexican and Brazilian business sector,” said Mexican Foreign Minister.
Alckmin, who also serves as Minister of Industry and Commerce, will participate in the Mexican capital in forums that will bring together some 250 entrepreneurs from both countries and will be received this Thursday by President Sheinbaum.
The Brazilian vice president also met during the day with the Mexican Secretary of Agriculture, Julio Berdegué, with whom he signed a memorandum of agri -food cooperation in issues of science, technology, sustainability, family agriculture, agroecology and social inclusion.
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These contacts are framed in the initiatives of both governments to expand and diversify their commercial operations in order to counteract the effects of the tariff war that the president of the United States has unleashed, Donald Trump.
The exchange between Brazil and Mexico, the largest economies in Latin America, reached 13.6 billion dollars last year, with the spaled balance to the South American country, whose exports to the Mexican market added 7,800 million dollars.
The vice president traveled accompanied by the Ministers of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, and Planning, Simone Tebet, as well as with the Vice Minister of Exterior, María Laura Da Rocha, and managers of various companies and state agencies.
With EFE information.
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