Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she had spoken with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and that the two had agreed to strengthen trade collaboration, particularly in light of the tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump set to go in effect on August 1.
“We both agreed that the (U.S.-Canada-Mexico) trade agreement needed to be respected, and we shared our experiences about the letter than we received from President Trump,” Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference.
Trump has sent a flurry of letters in recent days, threatening to slap a range of tariffs on U.S. trade partners.
There are a lot of things that can’t be grown at all in Canada that do grow in Mexico and the US. I’d love it if Canada imported more Mexican goods and stopped buying from the US. I know a lot of people in Canada are still avoiding US products / produce too.
I just wonder what Canada can sell Mexico. Mexico is part of the same North American network of auto manufacturing, so Canada technically exports car parts to Mexico and Mexico exports car parts to Canada. But, really, that’s just shuffling things around as part of a continent-wide manufacturing chain, with the imports and exports showing up in a country’s list for accounting purposes. I don’t think Canada is a major buyer of cars made in Mexico or vice versa. Canada’s other main exports are petroleum-related, but since Mexico has its own petroleum industry, they probably don’t buy much from Canada.
Here’s for 2024:
https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/exports/mexico
About a third are various things made of metal, including, like you said, car parts.
Then some important exports are metal, meat, and electrical, electronic equipment.
One could look at what the US exports to Mexico and find what things Canada could export as a replacement to US’ exports.
I bought mangos from Mexico🇮🇹
Get bent Trump😂🖕I’m doing my part🫡
I buy various berries from Mexico, vegetables too… I avoid most vegetables and fruits from the US.
🎶Avacados from Mexico🎶
I love this. Walk around the bully and ignore him.
This is what they said they would do in February or March, whenever he started flinging shit at the wall to cover the fascist coup…
Bought grapes for my lunch that are from Mexico.
I wonder, what physical trade routes exist between Canada and Mexico that don’t involve the USA?
do they send ships up the US coasts? fly them over/around?
Mexico ->Turks&Caicos->Canada
There are agreements in place to facilitate the transit of goods via rail/truck through the USA, without onerous tariffs involved. Just like there are agreements in place to allow for transit of goods through Canada up to Alaska.
Could the fascists in the USA impact those trade routes? Sure. But they haven’t yet, and there’s been no explicit talk of it as far as I’ve seen at least. The most ‘noise’ on this front was caused, briefly, by the premier of BC saying they were going to tax trucks going to Alaska – a threat they backed down from almost immediately, as they realised what it’d likely open the doors for in terms of Canada / Mexico trade routes.
Isn’t it more economical to do mass transport by sea anyway? We can just go through international waters.
And all Canada’s largest population centers are connected to the sea.
Shipping by rail is generally quicker, at a relatively low price point, and with far less ecological impact.
Shipping things like produce via sea to/from Mexico would likely result in a lot of spoiled food. Larger non-perishables it ‘might’ work, but you wouldn’t bother if you have a cheap, less damaging and quicker option available.
You’ve answered your own question. I’d think they’d avoid trucking through the US to prevent confiscation or transport levies or some such fabricated bullshit. Maybe (like Somalia) they’ll even have to sail 200 miles out to avoid the US raiders that will eventually ply the coasts looking for booty.
