Mexican, Canadian trade chiefs push back on call for ‘substantial’ U.S. content in auto rules of origin

The U.S., Mexico and Canada could soon clash over their visions for how to update the North American Free Trade Agreement’s automotive rules of origin, with Mexican Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland forcefully pushing back against U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s call for “substantial” U.S. content in a new NAFTA. “In the world trade history, to take bilateral or trilateral agreements, it is basically the policy is rules of origin to integrate regional content...