Canada, Mexico to work together in face of Trump’s US tariff threats

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Canadian and Mexican leaders pledge person coordination connected commercialized amid US President Donald Trump’s commercialized war.

Published On 19 Sep 2025

Canada and Mexico person promised to deepen ties and coordinate their attack during a forthcoming reappraisal with Washington of the 2020 United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, oregon USMCA.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney visited Mexico connected Thursday, wherever helium met his counterpart, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, to sermon economical and information ties.

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In a associated quality conference, the 2 leaders said they had agreed to grow ties betwixt their countries and were committed to their three-way commercialized concern with the US.

Sheinbaum said she was optimistic the 2 countries would proceed to enactment unneurotic with reciprocal “respect”.

“Mexico and Canada volition proceed walking together, with communal respect and with a certainty that practice is the way to flooded immoderate challenge,” she said.

Carney said North America is the “economic envy of the world”, successful portion owed to commercialized practice betwixt Canada and Mexico.

“I person afloat confidence, and truthful does the president [Sheinbaum], that we tin find the adjustments needed to reenforce contention and competitiveness successful our region,” helium said.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during a property league with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (not pictured) astatine the National Palace, successful Mexico City, Mexico September 18, 2025. (Raquel Cunha / Reuters)

While some Sheinbaum and Carney person been attempting to scope broadside commercialized deals with US President Donald Trump, connected Thursday, they insisted they were not successful contention with each other.

“We volition determination guardant together,” Carney said.

Public consultations connected the aboriginal of the USMCA began this week successful beforehand of a reappraisal to beryllium conducted by each state adjacent year.

Canada has precocious struggled to renegotiate its existing agreements with Washington, amid increasing commercialized and governmental tensions pursuing comments by Trump on wanting his bluish neighbour to articulation the US arsenic its 51st state.

Trump has been likewise belligerent to his confederate neighbour, issuing an enforcement bid which directed US authorities agencies to notation to the “Gulf of Mexico” arsenic the “Gulf of America”.

In August, Trump was reported to person signed a concealed enforcement order directing the subject to onslaught Mexican cause cartels, forcing Sheinbaum to respond to concerns astir nonstop US subject involution successful Mexico.

“There volition beryllium nary penetration of Mexico,” Sheinbaum said astatine the time.

Both countries person been targeted by Trump successful his commercialized war, with 50 percent tariffs imposed connected Canadian alloy and 25 percent connected immoderate Mexican pharmaceuticals. Mexico has besides been deed with different 25 percent “fentanyl tariff”, implicit what helium says is the travel of drugs crossed Mexican borders and into the US.

Mexico and Canada are the US’s largest and second-largest trading partners, respectively, portion the US is the apical trading spouse for some countries.

Trade betwixt Mexico and Canada was valued astatine $40.5bn successful 2024. Canada’s commercialized narration with the US, by contrast, was valued astatine $924.4bn.

Carney’s travel is the archetypal bilateral sojourn by a Canadian premier curate to Mexico successful 8 years, and Canadian officials briefing reporters described ties arsenic fantabulous but conceded they could beryllium closer.