Inside Trade

January 18, 2025

U.S., Mexico gird for first USMCA rapid-response panel hearing

By Margaret Spiegelman  / February 23, 2024 at 5:12 PM
A U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement panel is set to hold a two-day hearing on a labor dispute involving a mine owned by a major Mexican company – the first such dispute elevated to a panel under the trade agreement’s novel rapid-response labor tool. The hearing, set to take place Feb. 28 and 29 in Mexico City, was announced on the USMCA Secretariat website . It will be livestreamed. A verification of the mine, in Zacatecas, Mexico, is set for Feb. 26, according...

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