Mexico watches US–Canada trade tension with uncertainty

The partners of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) are in crisis. The U.S. and Canada have escalated their trade war in recent days, imposing mutual tariffs and casting uncertainty over negotiations about the future of the pact they share with Mexico. The Latin American country has not been part of the convoluted talks, but it is on edge about how the tension between Washington and Ottawa could affect its own negotiations with the Trump administration and, ultimately, the economic impact of the Republican president’s feud with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has avoided going into detail about the rupture between the United States and Canada, but she sent Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to Washington on an emergency basis. “I am optimistic that an agreement can be reached,” the president said at her Monday press conference.

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