The Mexican President, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, will present an import substitution plan for North Americain his meeting next January with the US president, Joe Biden.
The meeting with President Biden is going to be very important for this reason, because we are going to propose a plan to substitute imports and produce in America, first in North America, but in the medium term throughout America, what we consume”, reported this Tuesday the president in his morning press conference.
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López Obrador referred to the North American Leaders Summit that Mexico will host next January with Biden and the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeauto whom he already asked for greater economic integration at the trilateral meeting in November 2021 in Washington.
Without detailing the plan, argued that “this will mean investment and many jobs”.
The economic situation of the country is very optimistic, that is, there is a lot of optimism, many companies that were in Asia are already setting up, they are moving to Mexico, and this is quite favorable,” he said.
The Mexican ruler also announced “two also important plans” for his meeting with his US counterpart, “one that has to do with an alliance for the well-being of all the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean.”
And another one, another alliance to see ourselves in Latin America, in the Caribbean and throughout the continent, as allies, and that the sovereignty of the peoples be respected, the self-determination of the peoples. It is a general approach for this visit of the president of Biden ”, he added.
Summit of the “three amigos” awaiting
The last Summit of North American Leaders took place in November 2021 in Washington, where the three North American leaders addressed the Covid-19 pandemic, migration, and the Treaty between Mexico, the United States, and Canada (T-MEC).
the trilateral summitpopularly known as the “three friends” and which was normally organized annually, was held last year for the first time since 2016, after four years paralyzed during the term of Donald Trump.
The next meeting is significant because Mexico and the United States celebrated 200 years of bilateral relationship on December 12for which López Obrador received a special commission from Washington and exchanged letters with Biden.
Both countries exchanged a record of more than 661,000 million dollars in trade in 2021.
We are more friends than before and our economic and commercial relations are of the first order, we are the main commercial partners in the world, Mexico and the United States, so we are doing well,” said the Mexican president on Tuesday.
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