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Donald Trump has said that Mexico and Canada “have not respected” the Trilateral Commercial Treaty (T-MEC) and that “it will be renegotiated soon.”
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United States president Donald Trump, positively valued This Tuesday the Trilateral Commercial Treaty with Canada and Mexico, El Tmecalthough he said that his partners They have not respected him and recalled that he will “renegotiate very soon.”
“(The TMEC) has been very effective and remains very effective, But people have to respect it. And that has been a problem. People have not respected it, “Trump explained in the Oval Office during an encounter with the Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
“As you know, it expires quite soon. And it will be renegotiated very soon“The US President added, before adding that the current commercial treaty, whose negotiation promoted Trump in his first term (2017-2021), is an improvement with respect to the previous agreement, the NAFTA, which has been criticized repeatedly.
The Tmec, signed in 2018 and in force since 2020, must be reviewed before July 2026as stipulated in the three signatory countries.
Trump said the TMEC is “a transition agreement” and what “It was a very positive step with respect to NAFTA“, which described as” the worst commercial agreement in the history of our country, probably in the history of the world. “
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