Sources: Mexico tables government procurement proposal based on reciprocal effective access

MEXICO CITY -- Mexican negotiators have put forward a NAFTA proposal on government procurement that would limit U.S. government procurement access in Mexico to the effective market access Mexican companies are awarded in the U.S., sources told Inside U.S. Trade . These sources said the Mexican proposal is meant less as a serious pitch and more as a way to show that market access already is favorable to U.S. industries -- and would be far less so under a reciprocal...