Mexico News
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/13
Defying doomsayers concerned about Israel losing diplomatic clout, Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Bogota, Argentina, and Mexico -- part other Latin American nations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to depart for Latin America and the US on Sunday evening, marking the fifth time in some 15 months he will embark on ground-breaking trips to nations at no time before visited by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
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AFGHANISTAN, 2017/09/09
Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the initial six months of 2017, some 36 million additional than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, increase was well above the trend of recent years, making the current January-June period the strongest half-year since 2010.
Visitor numbers reported by destinations around the world reflect strong request for international travel in the initial half of 2017, according to the new UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Worldwide, international tourist arrivals (overnight visitors) increased by 6% compared to the same six-month period last year, well above the sustained and consistent trend of 4% or higher increase since 2010. This represents the strongest half-year in seven years.
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NORTH KOREA, 2017/09/08
The Mexican government on Thursday said it had declared the North Korean ambassador to Mexico persona non grata in turmoil at the country’s nuclear tests, an unusually firm step that moved it closely into line with Washington.
In a statement, the government said it had given Kim Hyong Gil 72 hours to leave Mexico in order to express its “absolute rejection” of North Korea’s recent nuclear activity, describing it as a grave threat to the region and the world.
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CANADA, 2017/09/06
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Tuesday that he and President Donald Trump are in full agreement on the NAFTA trade pact’s problems and believes that Trump will support any final modernization transaction that he negotiates.
Next closing out five days of talks in Mexico City, Lighthizer said that he considers Trump’s views in each decision he makes in negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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CHINA, 2017/09/04
China has invited Egypt, Guinea, Tajikistan, Mexico and Thailand as guest nations for the upcoming BRICS summit but clarified that the invitation is not an attempt to expand the group under its 'BRICS Plus'border.
China will host the BRICS summit in Xiamen city from September 3 to 5 in which leaders of the five nations will participate, inclunding Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
"We need to have some further explanation about the BRICS Plus to help people better understand the rationale of this idea," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Beijing, addressing the media about BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) summit.
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CANADA, 2017/08/26
Mexico and Canada may discount US President Donald Trump’s remarks about the country’s withdrawal from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Russell A. Green, Will Clayton Fellow in International Economics at Rice University's Baker Institute (Houston) told Trend.
"Trump’s threat to withdraw completely from NAFTA should be taken seriously. Nonetheless, there are reasons Mexico and Canada may discount his remarks. Initial, the remarks came during a political rally and may have been directed additional at supporters than the negotiations. Second, there is very little support for withdrawing from NAFTA in Congress, so Trump risks further alienating significant portions of his own party. Third, some legal scholars have offered that the president does not even have the power to do so. While foreign policy treaties like alliances may be canceled by the president autonomously, trade treaties are not the same. They fall under the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution, which stipulates that Congress has authority," the expert explained.
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CANADA, 2017/08/21
As negotiators from Canada, the United States and Mexico get ready to discuss how to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement, here’s what you need to know.
How does NAFTA affect me?
For consumers, trade deals have a positive and wide-ranging affect but, most of the time, they don’t know it.
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CANADA, 2017/08/21
Industry, organized labour submit policy wish lists to PM ahead of talks to renegotiate North American Free Trade Agreement.
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CANADA, 2017/08/20
A revamped trade agreement will be born into a new economic world, if by presently weakening signs of increase and trends in history are any indication
By the time the majority recent economic readings are published, they could by presently be relegated to the history bin. That’s not only because of the usual lag in data gathering, it’s as well a matter of number-crunching being overtaken by political events.
Case in point: The current negotiating process between Canada, the United States and Mexico to determine the next of continental trade. As the playing fields change, so too will the economic numbers for each country. By what degree remains unknown.
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CANADA, 2017/08/15
Renegotiation of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), scheduled on August 16-20 in Washington, D.C., has caused concerns that rewriting the terms of trade could turn out to be a double-edged sword: benefiting some industries while hurting certain sectors.
Agriculture in the U.S. no doubt is the major beneficiary of the NAFTA. Statistics show that next NAFTA officially took result on January 1, 1994, U.S. annual agricultural exports to Mexico has skyrocketed from 4 billion U.S. dollars to 18.5 billion U.S. dollars. With exports to Canada added, U.S. annual exports to other NAFTA nations could reach 40 billion U.S. dollars, four times the all reported before 1994.
