Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Oct. 27 said that she and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed to extend bilateral trade talks to discuss outstanding issues, ahead of a deadline at the end of this week.
Sheinbaum said during her regular morning press conference that she spoke to Trump on Oct. 25, “and we’re going to give it a few more weeks to close the already well-advanced issue of the 54 non-tariff barriers that are still pending.”
“We agreed to talk again in a few weeks, because we’re practically wrapping up this issue, because November 1st is finally the deadline we had both set for ourselves of three months,” the Mexican president said, according to an official transcript of her remarks….