The Rapid Response Mechanism This week, two events related to the USMCA’s Facility-Specific Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) were raised against the following companies in the auto industry: Tridonex, located in Matamoros, Tamaulipas. General Motors’ Facility located in Silao, Guanajuato. Tridonex – A Rapid Response Petition Per reports, on Monday the AFL-CIO filed, in conjunction with […]
Labor and Trade, Labor Chapter, Labor Reform, Rapid Response Labor Mechanism, USTR
Developments Mid-December 2020 A series of decisions and regulations trade-related were published in December 2021. The most relevant in our opinion are the following: Mexico and CPTPP: Ministry of Economy made some changes to the procedure regarding the public tenders to access the import quotas per Mexico’s Tariff Rate Quotas established in Appendix A-1, which deals […]
Free Trade Zone, Labor Reform, Tax Benefits in Mexico, USMCA, USMCA Implementation
Doing Business in Mexico, English
Our seventh chapter of Doing Business in Mexico, Labor and Migration in Mexico, will provide a general overview of the relevant labor law provisions on employment, from worker rights, dismissals to unions and collective bargaining, including a brief summary regarding the USMCA, the rapid response mechanism, as well as information on migration. This Chapter includes the […]
employment, labor, Labor and Trade, Labor Reform, Outsourcing
The Trading Room (Download our newsletter in PDF: Trading Room) Overhaul to Food Product Labeling As we reported in our Alert, on October 1 the Chamber of Deputies approved the reform to the General Health Law to regulate the frontal warning labeling on food and non-alcoholic beverages. The Senate has yet to approve such reform. In […]
Approval of the USMCA, Labels to food products, Labor Reform, USMCA
The Trading Room (Download the PDF version of our newsletter: Trading Room) National Development Plan & International Trade Last Friday 12th of July, the Mexican National Development Plan (NDP) for 2019-2024 was published in the official gazette. The NDP is a document, prepared every six years by the new President and approved by the legislative branch, […]
dispute settlement, environment, Investment, Labor Reform, Nacional Development Plan & International Trade, US representatives visit Mexico to discuss USMCA
The Trading Room (download our newsletter in PDF here: Trading Room -20190426) Goodbye SEZs This Thursday in his morning press conference, Mexican President, AMLO, declared that the Special Economic Zone policy will disappear. According to his statements: “[SEZ] were supposedly going to help, but they never did anything to help. The business was made, the land […]
Labor Reform, Mexico, Ratification, Special Economic Zones, Unions, USMCA
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