Mexico says U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum will keep it from ratifying new North American trade deal
Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, left, and Mexico's then-President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, pose for a photo in Mexico City, Wednesday, July 25, 2018. OTTAWA -- Mexico's Congress will be asked to approve a major labour-reform bill this spring as a necessary step to ratifying the new North American free-trade pact later this autumn, say Mexican officials.
But a senior trade official in the new government of socialist reformer Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador suggested in an interview it wasn't a huge sacrifice because elevating the status of country's workers was a key plank in the platform that brought their Morena party to power. That means the new agreement will be sent to the Mexican Congress for ratification after reconvenes in Sept. 1, she said.
On Nov. 30, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump and former Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto, who was on his last day in office, signed the new trade agreement. It now faces ratification by the legislatures of all three countries.
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