Report: USTR preparing USMCA complaints about Mexico energy policies

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is preparing two complaints under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement targeting developments in Mexico’s energy sector, according to a report last week in the Mexican newspaper El Universal. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and other Biden administration officials in recent months have expressed concern about a series of moves by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to reform the country’s energy sector, saying the actions are discriminatory against U.S. companies and could run afoul of...