As NAFTA Lingers, Mexico to Up Trade with Russia, EU Sputnik
go to original March 14, 2017

Mexico has moved to seek stronger trade ties with China in the face of strained bilateral relations between the US and Mexico surrounding the North Americas Free Trade Agreement (CGTN)

Mexico is aiming at renewing deliveries of beef and pork to Russia and at shipping honey, chickpeas, meat and tropical fruit to the European Union.

"We must diversify, we will return to Russia, they want to buy Mexican beef and pork, we will also intensify relations with the European Union which is interested in our honey, chickpeas, meat and tropical fruit," Calzada said during a working visit to Coahuila state, as quoted in Monday's Agriculture Ministry statement.

Around 78 percent of Mexico's agricultural exports currently go to the United States, he added, noting that Mexico exported $25 billion worth of agricultural products to the United States last year while importing $20 billion from its northern neighbor.

...In February, Mexico’s Economy Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo said his country was planning to extend its current trade agreement with the European Union, adding that free trade negotiations have also been launched with Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam following the US withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade treaty.

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Related: Mexico, U.S. Don't Agree Yet on How to Negotiate NAFTA (CNNMoney)

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