He added that if he wants to put a tariff of 200% to the cars that are produced in Mexico, it is not known if it will differentiate between the Chinese cars and the American ones that are being produced here.
Regarding whether he sees a complication for the T-MEC in the 2026 review, the president of Comce is confident that it will move forward, since it is a mutual benefit and he recalled when Trump initially did not want a trade agreement with Mexico, but He ended up doing it.
He said that Mexico and the United States are closely integrated economically, financially and industrially, “there is no way to turn this back, (…) 40% of the supplies that the American automotive industry has comes from Mexico.”
“(It is) what happens when you are in an electoral process, they are statements that at a certain moment you may think can attract voters to you. But that always happens. That’s how politicians are, but we are going down the path of businessmen, industrialists, those of us who do economics,” Contreras highlighted.
For the review of the T-MEC, he announced that Mexico is already working and that an issue that could be brought to this process is the labor part.
