On July 1st of this year, the free trade agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada, known as USMCA, came into force, an update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that was signed 26 years ago.
In recent weeks, Mexico became one of the countries with the most cases of COVID-19 worldwide with at least more than half a million cases of contagion (sixth place) and, by mid-August, one of those with the highest mortality rates (third place), with more than 50 thousand dead.
These days the main topic in the news around the world is clearly the coronavirus pandemic that is the cause of COVID-19 lung disease and in many cases it structures life in a way that we have never anticipated.
In April, the Senate ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership (TTP-11 or CPTPP), Mexico being the first country of those participating to do so.