Overview

• U.S. Ambassador Ronald Johnson and a bipartisan congressional delegation met with President Claudia Sheinbaum in Palacio Nacional and described the discussions as very good.
• The visit included representatives such as James French Hill, Ro Khanna, Don Bacon, David Davidson, Troy Downing, Tim Moore, María Elvira Salazar, Janelle Bynum and Don Davis.
• Meetings this week aimed to defuse tensions over President Trump’s threat to impose a 30 % tariff on Mexican imports starting August 1.
• Both governments have initiated dispute-resolution and technical working groups under the T-MEC framework to explore alternatives to unilateral tariffs.
• The U.S. ambassador also highlighted a new binational environmental agreement to tackle longstanding wastewater challenges in the Tijuana River.