Mexico

The ag secretary will “encourage” enforcement to ensure market access for U.S. potatoes if a court ruling doesn't answer his concerns.

Mexican migrant women on Tuesday filed the first labor dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, contending sex-based discrimination in recruitment and hiring processes for U.S. jobs bar them from obtaining necessary work visas.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Canada’s top trade official on Monday agreed to hold a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission meeting soon, USTR said following Tai’s first virtual meeting with an international counterpart.

Esteban Moctezuma will help “identify and promote trade and investment opportunities” within the USMCA framework, the embassy said.

Proposed Mexican legislation that would require operating licenses for social media platforms and regulate content moderation practices could violate U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement rules on non-discrimination, intermediary liability and cross-border data flows, according to industry sources.

Mexico’s government hopes to address complaints about its recent actions in the energy sector without resorting to arbitration under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a Mexican embassy official said on Wednesday.

Recent regulatory actions in Mexico have created “significant uncertainty” about its energy sector and damaged the investment climate, and they could run afoul of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, top U.S. officials this week said in a letter to their Mexican counterparts.

While unions and Democratic lawmakers are eager to put the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s new labor enforcement mechanisms to use, two officials overseeing the implementation of the deal recently took pains to note the substantial nature of Mexico’s labor reforms – and to stress that the road ahead won’t always be smooth. 

Many of Mexico’s labor obligations under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement remain unimplemented, an independent review board says in its first report to Congress, outlining a slew of concerns while offering recommendations for how the country can better fulfill its commitments.