Guatemala seeks return to CAFTA terms in talks with Trump administration 

Guatemala views the reestablishment of Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement protections as critical for several industry sectors to regain parity with Mexican exporters that have been able to avoid many new U.S. tariffs through exclusions for goods produced under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a prominent academic economist in the country says. “We got the 10 percent tariffs, and the Mexicans got nothing. And in many of our main exports, we compete … head-to-head with Mexico,” Hugo Maul, a professor of...