{"id":22977,"date":"2017-01-10T18:05:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/mexico-says-it-will-negotiate-with-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-01-10T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T12:05:59","slug":"mexico-says-it-will-negotiate-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/mexico-says-it-will-negotiate-with-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico Says It Will Negotiate With Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#039;s new foreign relations secretary said Tuesday his country isn&#039;t just willing to negotiate changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, it wants to start talks as soon as possible.   Luis Videgaray said there&#039;s \u201cenormous uncertainty\u201d following the U.S. election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has pressured companies not to move jobs to Mexico, warned he would tax those who do, and has vowed to renegotiate NAFTA.   Videgaray said in a Radio Formula interview that Trump&#039;s actions have caused concern, adding \u201cthat is why this [negotiation] process is so important, to dispel this uncertainty.\u201d He said talks should start \u201cas soon as possible.\u201d   Mexico&#039;s peso weakened further Tuesday, trading below 21.5 to $1.   Videgaray said his government&#039;s main concern would be \u201chow to protect jobs in Mexico,\u201d and said \u201cthere are a lot of reasons to think the negotiation would be favorable for Mexico.\u201d   He said Mexico is willing to negotiate over Trump&#039;s plan to build a border wall. But Videgaray said Mexico won&#039;t pay for the wall, calling that \u201cunacceptable.\u201d   Mexican manufacturing sectors such as the auto industry have benefited greatly from NAFTA, which went into effect in 1994. But wages haven&#039;t risen much and Mexican farmers complain about massive imports of U.S. grain and other farm products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico&#039;s new foreign relations secretary said Tuesday his country isn&#039;t just willing to negotiate changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement, it wants to start talks as soon as possible. Luis Videgaray said there&#039;s \u201cenormous uncertainty\u201d following the U.S. election of Donald Trump as president. Trump has pressured companies not to move jobs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22978,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}