Overview

• The Economy Ministry reports 13 sectoral and 13 state working tables in the first two weeks, with 1,602 questionnaires feeding a statistical analysis for negotiators.
• Outreach spans all 32 states and 30 economic sectors, and for the first time in this process includes the labor movement alongside business and academia.
• Jalisco is running a multisector review to protect electronics, agroalimentary and fashion industries and aims to deliver its state proposal on October 29 as it installs a new Investment Committee.
• Automotive groups urge keeping a trilateral framework for the review, rejecting potential bilateral deals that they say would undermine regional supply chains and competitiveness.
• Business leaders expect discussion of common North American rules on Chinese investment, while analysts caution that U.S. unilateral tariffs and enforcement disputes are pressuring the agreement.