The head of Economy pointed out that there is awareness that these issues will coincide, but that no one should be alarmed, since this was the case six years ago “and we can move forward, of course, with different degrees of difficulty in some issues.”
During his participation in the International Seminar “North America: what is coming” of the College of Mexico (Colmex), he said that “Mexico would never accept an intervention in a type in its territory,” when questioned about the threats of a possible intervention in the country if it does not control the issue of drug trafficking and that can be used to negotiate a successful review of the T-MEC.
Ebrard recalled that six years ago they were the same issues that Trump raised, “structurally what we need is to reach an understanding that allows us to move from January 25 onwards, we are working on this with Dr. Juan Ramón de la Fuente and other colleagues in the cabinet, not right now, we have been there for several months, because it was the scenario that we anticipated was very feasible or likely to happen, so I think we will be able to go through it.
For the review of the T-MEC, he said that Mexico is already ready for negotiation and his forecast is that the three countries will reach an agreement, this also in the context that the Prime Minister of Ontario, Canada, Doug Ford, declared that Mexico should be removed from the treaty if it does not toughen its tariffs against China.
Regarding this issue of China, Ebrard indicated that Mexico is going to propose and conciliate, and to a certain extent moderate the conflict, but it does take into account that the main partner is the United States.
Defeat of Mexico in corn panel
The secretary spoke again about the transgenic corn panel that is disputed with the United States, opening the possibility that Mexico will lose.
“They already gave us the preliminary result of corn, the process is not finished yet, it will be in December, maybe it will beat us,” Ebrard said after saying that the important thing is that this mechanism of the panels is working well.
On October 22, the preliminary conclusions were shared with Mexico, on November 6 they responded with the arguments, on November 29 they will respond and on December 14 it ends with the publication of the conclusions. “I can’t give more details right now because it would be inconvenient due to the process,” he explained.
