Inside Trade

July 7, 2025

News analysis

Assessing Mexico’s labor reform ahead of the 2026 USMCA review

By Margaret Spiegelman  / July 1, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Mexico’s historic labor reform push is in need of renewed support and stronger enforcement, trade and labor specialists tell Inside U.S. Trade , outlining how the U.S. and Mexico could advance the unfinished effort – which Mexico committed to completing under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement – ahead of the pact’s 2026 review. Mexico in recent years has established new labor courts and conciliation centers and taken other steps to protect freedom of association and collective bargaining rights under the reform, crafted...

Not a subscriber?

Request 30 days free access to exclusive, behind-the-scenes reporting on trade policy in the Trump era.