Ebrard stresses free trade successes at American Society of Mexico meeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : In later remarks, Ebrard said that the world is amid "a new paradigm that has two characteristics." The first, he said, is greater trade protectionism "by region" -- even though Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on Mexican and Canadian exports -- while the second is "increasing competition" between the United States and China, the world's top two economies.
40% : Trump has pledged to renegotiate the USMCA while some Canadian politicians have advocated a bilateral Canada-U.S. agreement that doesn't include Mexico, rather than the current trilateral pact.
22% : Ebrard, foreign affairs minister during most of the six-year term of former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recalled that the expectation when negotiations for a new North America trade agreement began during the first presidency of Donald Trump was that a "disaster" was awaiting Mexico, that the new pact would lead to the "destruction" of the Mexican economy.

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