Quote-unquote: Trade relations, north and south

What’s being said: Looking north and south. The latest on the status of trade negotiations (or lack of same) with North American trading partners. Mexico, in search of reduced steel and aluminum tariffs. “Well, we have already raised all the technical foundations of why what we are raising [a reduction in tariff on U.S. imports of Mexican steel and aluminum] is reasonable and fair. I synthesize it, in terms of steel and aluminum, the United States imposed 50% on all countries in the world, except the United Kingdom, conditioned on a process of nationalization of its steel industry. From that circumstance we have stated that the United States…