Overview

• Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said meetings with governors and state economic chiefs will run through existing investment-promotion committees to hold 32 state-level forums, with electronic inputs to be systematized.
• The Economy Secretariat submitted to Congress a tariff initiative covering 1,463 tariff lines to shield strategic sectors after an 83% rise in Mexico’s trade deficit with Asia from 2020 to 2024, stressing it is not directed at any single country.
• Mexico published new procedural rules for T‑MEC binational panels reviewing antidumping and countervailing duty determinations in the Diario Oficial de la Federación, with entry into force on September 23 and parallel publication planned in Canada and the United States.
• The rules aim for panel decisions within 315 days, confine reviews to errors of fact or law, and draw from a trilateral roster of at least 75 panelists with defined channels for confidential information access in each country.
• The Economy Secretariat announced a collaboration with Amazon México under the Hecho en México program to highlight certified products and offer digital training for small and midsize businesses.