The leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States are due to hold a summit next week, where a significant bone of contention could be a dispute centring on whether Mexico breached a trade pact by tightening state control of its energy market.Tensions over Mexico’s nationalist policies boiled over into a formal dispute in July, when the governments in Washington, DC, and Ottawa filed a complaint against Mexico under the countries’ joint trade deal: the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).The complaint argued that efforts by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador discriminated against US and Canadian companies, by changing the market to favour Mexico’s state oil company Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and its national power utility Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE).
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