EL PASO, Texas (Border Record) – Mexican industry leaders are taking the initiative to toughen ties with their American opposite numbers in anticipation of adjustments led to by way of the incoming Trump management.
The Juarez Chamber of Trade and quite a lot of Mexican industry organizations are spearheading the Binational Trade Discussion board on Wednesday, Jan. 15, on the Blue Flame Construction in Downtown El Paso. A few dozen mayors from each side of the border had been invited to take part.
In a Zoom name on Friday, the Mexican industry leaders spoke concerning the financial interdependence between Juarez and El Paso and different “borderplexes” from Brownsville-Matamoros to San Diego-Tijuana.
When the longer term president of the US threatens – or bluffs – about implementing price lists on Mexico if it doesn’t rein in unlawful migration to the U.S., jobs are threatened on each side, chamber officers mentioned.
However the daylong convention will center of attention at the sure: Strengthening ties to extend industry alternatives and in combination face any demanding situations that would possibly come.
“The target of the boards is to inspire discussion between marketers from Mexico and the US,” mentioned Octavio de l. a. Torre de Steffano, president of the Mexican Confederation of Chambers of Trade. “The purpose is, inside the framework of the USMCA, determine alternatives for enlargement and toughen trade, services and products and tourism networks.”
The Mexican industry chief mentioned it might be out-of-line for governments to make main financial choices with out enter from the industry group. “It’s true that treaties are negotiated by way of overseas ministries and ratified by way of parliaments, however the ones treaties make no sense if the predominant actors within the economic system don’t seem to be represented,” he mentioned.
De l. a. Torre mentioned the collection in El Paso is one in every of 5 being held alongside border states the week previous to Trump’s inauguration. The others are in Tijuana, Nogales, Matamoros and Monterrey.
He mentioned Mexican and U.S. industry leaders in “sister town” communities be in contact frequently, however there’s a want to institutionalize the discussion.
Every discussion board is predicted to get conversations began on subjects of mutual hobby for the respective sister towns.
Elizabeth Villalobos, president of the Juarez Chamber of Trade, mentioned strengthening ties with El Paso is a concern. However there also are problems that want to be introduced up.
At Friday’s Zoom name, she mentioned issues from Juarez industry pursuits to a U.S. plan to prohibit business vehicles from the Bridge of the Americas in El Paso.
“Now we have been combating – now not simply the chamber however the folks and all of the different chambers – towards the closure of the ‘Loose Bridge’ to trade,” Villalobos mentioned. “That closure would affect us so much, economically, as a result of having to head round El Paso, Texas, to different crossings. That’s some of the issues we’re going to (lift) on the discussion board.”
El Paso native and federal officers had been taking note of citizens close to the border crossing about how truck site visitors affects their high quality of existence. A multimillion-dollar renovation of the construction proposes to excludes such truck site visitors someday.
The Town of El Paso mentioned its Financial Division director and team of workers could be attending the assembly. A town spokesperson additionally showed that El Paso’s new mayor, Renard Johnson, would attend.