EXTERNAL ACTION / Mexico

Issue of EU access to Mexican public procurement at sub-federal level remains in limbo until early 2019

Brussels, 23/05/2018 (Agence Europe)

After their agreement in principle concluded on 21 April on the trade section of their revised global agreement (see EUROPE 12007), the European Union and Mexico are now due to finalise their work on the technical level, especially on import quotas, and to settle a key outstanding issue on access to Mexican public procurement.

Under the terms of the agreement in principle, the Mexican federal government committed to negotiate with the country's 32 federated states in order to enable EU...