It is seen instead as opening an unexpected front in US President Donald Trump’s trade war on the world. But the real reason is that Sheinbaum is spooked by the deadline, six months away, for reviewing the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). But Sheinbaum shows that the trade conflicts Trump has launched are a cascading war, not some controlled confrontation. But a significant proportion of Indian exports to Mexico are not about the US at all. Opposition lawmakers pointed out that official modelers had given up on trying to estimate the effects of such a drastic change to Mexican trade policy.

Source: Taipei Times December 21, 2025 16:26 UTC