Our president’s relationship with President Trump has no other leader. It is a reason for tranquility and confidence in the conduct of our country
Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Economy.
Mexico with advantage over other economies
Ebrard stressed that, while regions such as the European Union face tariff costs for 700,000 million dollars to access the US market, Mexico maintains 84% of its exports without tariffs. “Obviously, Mexico’s position is much better. It is not a small thing,” he said.
The secretary assured that the country has managed to avoid more costs thanks to its negotiation strategy, despite a context marked by the renewed American protectionism and the next T-MEC renegotiation.
Although the truce is temporary, the Mexican government sees with “reasonable optimism” the process that opens. Ebrard explained that the next step will be the renegotiation of the commercial treaty, where barriers such as intellectual property, agricultural verification and compliance with rules of origin will be discussed.
“The goal is to reach the end of the year with a new treaty. We can be reasonably optimistic,” he said.
A bilateral, non -trilateral relationship
Regarding the T-MEC, which includes Canada, the official also clarified that the relationship between Mexico and the United States is one of the most complex in the world, so he pointed out that the treaties are always and will be bilateral.
“Treaties have never been trilateral because Mexico’s relationship with the United States is one of the most complicated in the world. Nor does we invite Canada to discuss the border,” he said.
Ebrard highlighted Mexico’s relevance by listing the senior US officials who participated in the bilateral call, including the Secretary of the Treasury, the Commercial Representative and the National Security Advisor.
And, in this sense he insisted that Mexico has established itself as one of the most certainty countries in an uncertain global context.
“Within the uncertainty of the world, one of the countries where you can have more certainty of what it will achieve is Mexico. We have been with the same result for three or four months. Today we are building a situation of greater predictability,” said Ebrard.
Made in Mexico. Inventors find investors
The statements of the Secretary of Economy were given within the framework of the event “Made in Mexico: Merts in Action”, a platform created between the Government, the private initiative and investment funds so that Mexican entrepreneurs and inventors find investors interested in capitalizing on Mexican ideas and innovations.
In the style of Shark Tank, investors such as Arturo Elías Ayub, director of strategic alliances of America Mobile participated; Rodrigo Herrera Aspra, president of Genomma Lab; Mauricio Schwartzmann, Mastercard CEO; Ana Victoria García Álvarez, CEO of Victoria 147; and Mariana Castillo, CEO of Ben & Frank.
The mentors listened to the value proposals of the entrepreneurs, which were from biodegradable inks applicable to the pharmaceutical industry, generators of digital solutions through AI, cosmetics made with biotechnology and portable clinical analysis devices to detect HPV in women.
