Sheinbaum Offers Certainty to Industry After the Continuation of the USMCA Until 2036

ByAlma E. Muñoz and Arturo Sánchez

This article by Alma E. Muñoz and Arturo Sánchez originally appeared in the July 2, 2026 edition of La Jornada, Mexico’s premier left wing daily newspaper.

Mexico City. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo gave certainty to the companies of the Manufacturing, Maquiladora, and Export Services Industry (IMMEX) to keep investing in the country, in light of the continuation for ten more years of the Mexico, United States, Canada Treaty. On social media, at the end of the meeting held at the National Palace, the president emphasized that “through Plan México we promote more investment and better jobs.”

After Mexico, the United States, and Canada agreed that the trade agreement will continue until 2036, the president of the Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin), Alejandro Malagón, expressed his support for the position taken by the government. “We agree one hundred percent that what is happening to us will indeed give us certainty, because we have a ten-year guarantee… With an annual review, in a moment of carelessness, at some point in between, it gets reactivated again. This helps us a lot,” he stated.

Wide view of the meeting between President Sheinbaum and IMMEX business leaders around a long table at the National Palace
Photo: Presidencia

Obviously, he added, “we would want everything to be as the treaty was, that wasn’t the case, but there is no rupture; there is a deal among the three countries and we do not stop being a very important world power in the economy with this treaty.”

He mentioned that during the meeting the President urged them to work on Plan México, to keep “taking care of investments.” He emphasized that there is calm in the markets and there is “certainty that Mexico continues to advance with the treaty.”

The businessman indicated that the president urged them to make more use of the single window for foreign trade. “Today we have certainty for investments, remittances have been growing, and exports grew by more than 23 percent. So there are indicators that things are happening.”