Mexico to review rules of origin to help NAFTA renegotiation

AP ^ | 30 May 2017 8:03pm EDT | ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON

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MIAMI (AP) -- Mexico's foreign minister says the country is "inevitably" set to review rules of origin when renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement, giving a boost to President Donald Trump's manufacturing push.

Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Videgaray said on Tuesday at an event in Miami that NAFTA has allowed Mexican industry to enter the U.S. market with lax rules of origin.

[snip] "One part that must inevitably be reviewed is the chapter on rules of origin," Videgaray said at the University of Miami. "Over time, the free trade agreement has sometimes been used, not always of course, but sometimes as a way to access the U.S. market perhaps with laxity in some ways of rules of origin."

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Mexico has,over several decades,shown herself to be our enemy in every way *except* militarily.There's no way that we should have *any* special relationship with them.The wall that DJT builds should be designed to keep people *and* goods from the south.

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[cba123]

Trump do not do this.

I supported you very early, and very enthusiastically.

I did NOT support you, just to renegotiate trade deals. I did that so you would bring back American manufacturing.

I am still waiting, to see you act as I thought you would. You have not gone to bat for American jobs really yet, nor have you really protected the southern border.

Those two issues are the biggest facing our country long-term. I understand you are appeasing China because of North Korea, but China is very much the problem with world trade.

You need to fix that.

Just saying. Good job so far, except that you really haven’t done either of the two things, I wanted, you to do yet...

Thanks.