The Vice President of Brazil, Geraldo Alckmin, traveled to Mexico on Tuesday at the head of 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.
Alckmin, who is also Minister of Industry and Commerce, will participate in the Mexican capital in forums that will bring together some 250 businessmen from both countries and will be received next Thursday by the president Claudia Sheinbaum, who coordinated the visit together with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
These contacts are part of the initiatives of both governments to expand and diversify their commercial operations and counteract the effects of Donald Trump’s tariff war.
The commercial exchange between Brazil and Mexico, the largest economies in Latin America, reached 13,600 million dollars last year, with a favorable balance to Brazil, whose exports to Mexico added 7,800 minions of dollars.
“Mexico is an important partner of Brazil and this visit will be a strategic opportunity to deepen political dialogue and, above all, open new trade fronts and investments,” Alckmin said before embarking.
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The vice president traveled accompanied by the Ministers of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, and Planning, Simone Tebet, as well as the Vice Minister of Exterior, María Laura Da Rocha, and managers of various companies and state agencies.
The Brazilian delegation, in addition to participating in forums in the private sector, will hold meetings this Wednesday with the Mexican Secretaries of Agriculture, Julio Berdegué Sacristán, and Economics, Marcelo Ebrard, as well as with other authorities of the Government of Sheinbaum.
Lula himself highlighted the relevance of the commercial mission on Tuesday during the opening of a meeting with his cabinet: “It will be a very important trip, after the tariffs of the United States, which will allow discovering the real potential that exists between Mexico and Brazil,” said the president.
With EFE information
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