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On Monday, the US and Mexico reached two key agreements for the agricultural sector and smoked conflicts that threatened to escalate tensions between neighbors in business negotiations caused by Donald Trump’s tariffs.
Mexico undertook to supply water to farmers in Texas after the US complained that it could not live up to a ten -year agreement. The country has also achieved an agreement on how to fight the new world screw pest south of the border and avert the potential reduction of imports of American livestock from Mexico.
Resolution in stores show that Mexico is looking for ways to work with the US, despite the confrontational approach of Trump’s administration. This is good for Mexico because it strives to relieve Trump’s tariffs, which Trump stores on a car, steel and other goods.
The Mexican government has committed itself to converting water from international reservoirs and increasing the US share in the six Mexican inflows by Rio Grande by the end of the current five -year water cycle, the US Department of Agriculture said. The five -year water cycle ends on October 24 this year, Mexico said in a separate statement.
The agreement is based on a 1944 water agreement, which has shown that Mexico must supply 1.75 million acre water to the US from Rio Grande from Rio Grande for five years, while the US delivers 1.5 million acre water to Mexico from the Colorado River, USDA. It is not clear how much water will be converted in the short term.
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“Mexico agreed to the US to implement a number of measures to alleviate potential deficiencies in Mexico’s water supply at the end of the cycle and to ensure immediate water transfers and during the next season of rain,” the Ministry of Mexican agriculture said in a statement.
The 1944 contract offers both countries advantages, so “re -negotiations are not necessary,” the ministry added.
Details of a separate Pact dealing with the New World pest were not immediately published, but both sides said on Monday that they had an agreement. The Minister of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has previously warned that the US can again reduce the import of livestock from Mexico, unless the country has made more to combat pest, which can cause diseases in animals and even kill.
During the tour in Ohio, Rollins said she was talking to Mexican Minister of Agriculture Julio Berdegue and agreed to release screws, Reuters reported on Monday.
Berdegue in the X post said that he and Rollins were satisfactorily dealt with “measures that are in the interest of both countries to continue cooperation to contain and remove the worm of cattle.”
In November, the US Agricultural Department went even further and stopped the imports of cattle from Mexico after one case of a screw worm in Chiapas found. Were restored in January.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum avoided the confrontation with Trump, and instead called on the “cold” approach to addressing the US counterpart complaints, including direct telephone calls between the two leaders. She has gained some delays and reduced tariffs from Trump, who said that the concessions he agreed were caused by his respect for her.
Although Trump has liberated Mexico from retaliatory tariffs, the country still faces fees for goods that are not subject to an agreement on free trade in North America, along with steel, aluminum and part of finished cars that are not produced in the US.
Sheinbaum’s government said it was convinced that it would reduce these tariffs and also achieve a successful review of the Mexico-Canada agreement in the US. The pact is scheduled to revise next year, but the process could be shifted earlier.
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