Mexican industry calling for action against ‘unfair’ trade

Dec 12, 2012 | 12:16 PM | Rodrigo Alonso

Tags  Mexico, steel, Rodrigo Alpizar Vallejo, Felipe Calderón, Canacero, Rodrigo Alonso

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s transformation industries want the country’s new government under President Enrique Peña Nieto to create "a new legal department" that is "powerful" and "has the resources to face (up to) unfair trade practices," according to an executive with the country’s Chamber of Transformation Industries (Canacintra).

The "unfair practices" of some Asian and European countries have become a bigger problem over the past years, mainly because Mexico’s former government unilaterally reduced tariffs, Rodrigo Alpizar Vallejo, Canacintra’s vice president for the metal-mechanical sector, told AMM sister publication Steel First.....





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