What’s really at stake between Mexico and England

This post was originally published on Politico.

LONDON — It’s not just England’s World Cup dreams on the line tonight. There also a quieter diplomatic subplot: Mexico would quite like to restart stalled trade talks with Britain.

In an interview with POLITICO in April, the country’s trade minister Luis Rosendo Gutiérrez Romano said Mexico wants to “relaunch” negotiations in the second half of this year, focused on pharmaceuticals, financial services and advanced manufacturing.

The two nations already trade under a rolled-over post-Brexit deal and sit in Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asia-Pacific trade bloc which the United Kingdom was the first European country to

By Sophie Inge
Author: By Sophie Inge

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