A few days after the term granted agreed between the US and Mexico is fulfilled to pause the imposition of tariffs, the governments of both countries will have meetings this week to try to close a long -term collaboration agreement.
Mexico and the United States will hold high -level meetings this week in commercial and security matters to try to close a long -term collaboration agreement that avoids tensions and a tariff war, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday.
“The objective is, not only what is being done now, but a long -term collaboration plan, coordination, respecting our sovereignty for the issue of both security and for the issue of trade and migration that already carries its route,” The president explained at her usual morning conference.
On February 3 Sheinbaum and US President Donald Trump agreed to pause the imposition of tariffs on all their exports until March 1 in exchange for Mexico to reinforce security at the common border with 10,000 military and take greater actions to curb the drug trafficking and the arrival of migrants to the US.
Since then, the Mexican government advertises all the actions against the cartels they are carrying out – drugs of drugs, arrests, dismantling of methamphetamine manufacturing laboratories – while having accepted more than 2,500 non -Mexican migrants who were expelled from the US, according to data released by the president herself.
Last week, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Mexican Chancellor Juan Ramón de la Fuente, held a meeting in which, the US government said, Rubio thanked “the recent efforts of Mexico to stop illegal migration” , the deployment of troops from the Mexican National Guard on the border, “the reception of deportation flights to southern Mexico and the repatriation of illegal migrants to their countries of origin.”
Since then, both governments have been optimistic about the possibility of avoiding tariff war that could mean great damages to both countries.
“Hopefully this week we get to the agreement we are waiting for,” said Sheinbaum on Monday.
On Thursday in an interview Rubio acknowledged that Mexico insisted on the need to control the weapons that come from that country.
“We want to end the fentanyl. We want drugs to cease. We do not want those cartels to enter our border. So we ask them to take measures – even more measures – to prevent that from happening, and ask us to help them keep the weapons out of the reach of these cartels, ”he said. “Many of these cartels are finding ways to buy weapons or whatever in the United States.”
(With information from The Associated Press)