Trade official: Mexico eyeing USMCA's passage after Sept. 1 – if 232 tariffs are lifted

Mexico's government hopes to send a USMCA ratifying bill to its legislature after Sept. 1 – but it needs a labor reform bill passed before that, and it needs U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs lifted, according to Deputy Trade Minister Luz Maria de la Mora. In an interview with the Canadian newspaper The Star, de la Mora reiterated the government's position that a labor reform bill – including measures demanded in USMCA – should be passed by Mexico's Congress...