Why doesn’t Canada already have a stronger relationship with Mexico?

With tensions again heating in the commercial negotiations in Canada with the United States, and the Trump administration blames The “elbows” approachCanadian officials are scrambling to build new relationships, including one of its closest neighbors: Mexico.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, Claudia Shinbom, Prime Minister, from Mexico on Tuesday, said that the effort made at the Group of Seven Summit in Kananchasis, Alta, in June, where Prime Minister Mark Carney called on Mexican President Claudia Shinbom to meet him separately.

Anand in the Mexican capital with Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne to build a “bilateral economic relationship”.

But the trip prompted some experts to ask why this did not happen soon. Carne’s first trip was abroad to France and the United Kingdom, where he discussed not only the expansion of trade, but also security relations and called on King Charles to give the throne speech.

Laura McDonald, a professor of political science at the University of Carlton, said, while France and Britain are two main allies, Mexico is a trade partner greater than these two countries.

“There is a historic frequency by Canada to participate seriously with Mexico,” McDonald said. “There is a tendency for them to fail when they try to work together.”

McDonald added that Anand and Shambania’s visit indicates a willingness to change this.

There is no bilateral trade agreement, says Shinbom

While senior ministers met with Xinbom for more than an hour, Champagne praised the conversations as “very unusual”, anyone who hopes to leave with a bilateral trade agreement should not get his hopes.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Shinbom said that her meeting with the Canadians was “very good”, but “there is no need” for a separate agreement. “We have the commercial deal with the United States, Canada and Mexico,” said Shinbom.

Anand wrote on Wednesday that she and Shampian meet with Mexican business leaders on the second day of their journey “to explore new opportunities and enhance strategic partnerships.”

McDonald said that overcoming the stalled nature of Canada and Mexico would take work.

She said that Canadian companies were accustomed to giving priority to the US tapes to the point that there was no great effort, for example, learning the Spanish language or working to overcome other cultural barriers.

“I don’t think it has been taken seriously as a modern and diversified economy, and I think this is short -sighted and depicts a kind of colonial mentality towards the world in general.”

“The Mexicans, likewise, do not know much about Canada, and they think about it as a cool place and the extension of the United States.”

McDonald was part of a project by the Canadian Union UNIFOR to partnership with Mexican unions to help fight employment violations in Mexico.

“It is important that Canada be seen as part of solutions to the problems of inequality in Mexico … and not only seeing it as a site of low -wage production because it was built into Nava and Asma.”

She pointed out that the arrangement contributed to the loss of American manufacturing jobs and Canada.

Stewart Bergman, Vice President and Economist at Export Development Canada (EDC), has made a case to support the commercial relationship in Canada with Mexico.

In April, EDC wrote on the Internet that only three percent of Canada’s two -way trade is attributed to Mexico, while the United States represents 70 percent. He said that part of the Mexican imports of China could be It has been replaced by Canadian reward productsIncluding cars and parts.

Canada and Mexico Trade “is much lower than capabilities”

Tuesday, the Business Council in Canada echoed Bergman’s job, and called on trade and commercial relations in Canada (BCC) to Mexico “It is backward and much less than its potential.”

Shona Hemingway, Special Adviser at BCC in Mexico and Americans, Canada and Mexico buys less than three percent of each other, a special consultant at BCC in Mexico and the Americas.

While Canadian investments in Mexico increased “significantly” since 2010, the Mexican investment in Canada has stopped to $ 3.1 billion in 2023.

“Our inability to assess what we carefully means to the economies of each other … affects decision -making, and both countries tend to look more easily to the east to Europe and the West to Asia,” Hemenaghaway said.

Economists and commercial experts say that the possibility of increasing trade lies in goods that are not covered by the Canada-USA Convention (CUSMA)-such as raw materials such as wood and critical minerals, as well as on goods, the dog was made by US President Donald Trump with a high tariff (or threatened to do so), including steel, aluminum, copper, and cars.

Anand said that Canada and Mexico agreed to build a business plan that focuses on flexible supply chains and trade lines from the port to ports, artificial intelligence, agricultural food, digital economy and energy security.

On the vicinity of diplomatic efforts in Canada towards Mexico, rumors have emerged that the two countries agreed to create a “commercial corridor” that somehow transcends our American duties.

It seems that the rumors came from a video on YouTube, which was apparently created from the PPR Mandial channel published on July 18, claiming that Canada and Mexico are planning to transfer $ 120 billion in American ports by delivering goods via railways and sea “without entering the Texas ports” in the so -called “Northern Corridor”.

The video claims that Canada’s exports such as steel, “maple” and wood will go to the Gulf of Mexico via “coastal charging”. The distance between the largest ports in the two countries, the Vancouver port and the Manzanilo port, is about 4,917 km, according to the ship, according to one estimate.

The video is full of realistic errors, including customs that are shipped on goods that pass through the United States as well as commercial and economic figures, and rarely cite a verified resources.

Debra Steger, Professor Emerta at the University of Ottawa’s Law Faculty and his first colleague at the International Innovation Center for International Innovation and the CD Institute Haw, specialized in the International Trade Law, said.

“I think that if I go to international waters, certainly, well, but I mean, how many goods you can put on ships and how long it will take to reach them? And put things on aircraft – you cannot put everything on a plane very.”

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It is not clear if this has happened. When the correspondents were asked again and again on Tuesday evening, the ministers refused to answer whether they knew why Mexico has so far avoiding definitions by 35 percent on the goods that are not compatible with CUSMA.

Anand only said that trade relations in Canada and Mexico with the United States are complex and different. Carney indicated on Tuesday that Canada It can reduce revenge definitions And he will receive a phone call with Trump when “logical”.

Shinbaum spoke with Trump shortly before her country’s exemption for 90 days of emerging definitions.