Overview

• Querétaro hosted a regional consultation that drew about 80 participants and produced 58 questionnaires, distilling proposals across six axes including regulatory certainty and efficient logistics.
• Stakeholders pressed to digitalize and speed border crossings and customs, and advanced ideas such as a trilateral T-MEC subcommittee, an integrity portal with progress indicators, a whistleblower protection law, trade incentives and research consortia.
• Industry leaders called for clearer and broader regional-content rules beyond autos to sectors like aerospace and textiles, and urged long-term treaty certainty with equitable application of the rapid-response labor mechanism.
• President Claudia Sheinbaum said the T-MEC is law in the three countries and any change would require a deep review, while auto sector groups rejected replacing the pact with bilateral deals floated by President Donald Trump.
• Official data showed heavy-vehicle exports fell 58.3% and production 59.3% year over year in September 2025, with sector uncertainty heightened by potential U.S. tariffs on imported trucks starting November 1.