LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 03 April 2020

MEXICO | USMCA battle. After US President Donald Trump announced the partial closure of the border with Mexico on 21 March, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador swiftly took to Twitter to thank him for not enforcing a complete closure and for agreeing to expedite the implementation of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to help spur the economic recovery of both countries after the coronavirus pandemic. This no longer looks clear-cut. A bipartisan group of 19 US senators sent a letter this week to US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer urging a delay to the scheduled start date of 1 June for the USMCA on the grounds that it would place too much pressure on US companies, reeling from the impact of coronavirus, to adapt to the new rules. It called for the adoption of “a more feasible timeline”.

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