What might move Mexico to take a 'harder position' in trade talks?

Interview

June 3, 2025

Interviewer: Margaret Spiegelman

Source: Inside Trade

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Mexico has taken a cautious approach to trade talks with the Trump administration and, along with Canada, has been spared the full impact of the president’s tariff policy. Whether persistent tariffs and uncertainty, though, might push it to revise that strategy remains to be seen, two former officials say, with one former top negotiator contending that Mexico might soon need to play a stronger hand.

Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexico’s president, addressed threats in November by President-elect Donald J. Trump to impose a 25 percent tariff on Mexican exports.Credit...Luis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times

In an interview on Friday, Kenneth Smith Ramos, Mexico’s lead negotiator during the renegotiation of...

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