Tag: Jesus Seade

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 08:03 UTC

  Mexican NAFTA negotiator, candidate for director general of WTO

  

  Mexico is set to propose senior trade official Jesus Seade, who helped rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, as a candidate to be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), government sources said.

• Tuesday, December 17th 2019 - 09:51 UTC

  Mexico rejects US labor inspectors: they are not included in the USMCA trade pact

  

  Mexico’s trade negotiator for North America said that Mexico categorically opposes allowing foreign labor inspectors to operate in the country, saying that was not contemplated in the recent agreement with Washington and Ottawa on the USMCA pact to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.

• Saturday, May 18th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  New North American trade pact closer as US lifts tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada and Mexico

  

  The United States struck deals on Friday to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, the three governments said, removing a major obstacle to legislative approval of a new North American trade pact.