LatinNews Daily - 22 June 2020

* Mexico’s senate has delayed a session during which it was due to modify national legislation to bring it in line with the terms of the recently-ratified United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), due to come into force on 1 July. The president of the senate, Mónica Fernández Balboa, announced the postponement of a session scheduled for today (22 June) due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) epidemiological situation in Mexico City, which remains at the ‘red light’ level of the national government’s reactivation plan. The leader of the ruling Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) in the senate, Ricardo Monreal, has given assurances that the planned sessions will take place on 29 and 30 June, and that the senate remains determined to complete the “harmonisation” of Mexico’s laws with the terms of the USMCA before it comes into effect. As the USMCA treaty has been ratified by Mexico’s legislature, the modifications of these unspecified national laws should be a mere formality.

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