Mexican Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard announced the news and highlighted the role played by President Claudia Sheinbaum in pausing the executive order of US President Donald Trump for a month.
Mexico will begin negotiations with the United States to redefine bilateral relations, said Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Economy.
The official highlighted the role played by President Claudia Sheinbaum in pausing for one month the executive order of US President Donald Trump, which authorizes a general tariff of 25% on US imports of Mexican products.
Before Sheinbaum, businessmen and other officials gathered at the National Palace, Ebrard said that there was a 90% probability that this tariff would be applied starting this Tuesday, as originally planned, and the remaining 10% that negotiations would be opened. Therefore, he praised Sheinbaum.
“We are in good hands and we have to support her unconditionally, more than ever at this time, in the next month and in the years to come, because we have to redefine our economic relationship with the United States. It is no longer what it was, and we are going to find the way to do so because we are the best partner that the United States has,” said Ebrard.
To this end, Ebrard announced that negotiations will not be carried out as usual, through the so-called “Crew Room,” but will be conducted sector by sector.
The mechanism created for direct dialogue between the Ministry of Economy and the national productive sectors is called “Cuarto de Junto” (Closed Room), which aims to strengthen consultations at a technical level to clarify the interests and/or sensitivities of the sectors involved.
The fourth, institutionally called the Strategic Advisory Council for International Negotiations (CCENI), is headed by the President of the Business Coordinating Council (CCE).
Ebrard said that in the meetings that the Mexican government will hold with representatives of each productive sector in Mexico, the United States will be sought to “propose, persuade and convince” the United States, in reference to maintaining trade openness and creating the best synergy of shared production between the two nations.
These meetings will begin “from now on,” because “every day that passes counts,” Ebrard urged.
Ebrard also said that Sheinbaum instructed him to relaunch a “Made in Mexico” campaign to highlight the importance of the country’s productive quality and to communicate to the United States that Mexico has been its economic and financial ally and a reliable partner for the past 40 years.
