Overview
- The three countries opened the USMCA review on March 16 with Mexico spotlighting Chapter 27 on anti-corruption.
- Morena deputy Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar urged converting Chapter 27 into enforceable, measurable obligations with clear sanctions.
- He proposed a Trinational Customs Unit for real-time intelligence sharing and coordinated investigations targeting smuggling, illegal fuel flows, arms trafficking and illicit cash.
- His plan calls for stronger institutional and technological capacity, tighter controls, transparency and information exchange across the three nations’ customs systems.
- The executive and ruling party are preparing an anti-corruption reform package that could reach Congress within two weeks, including ending legislative immunity, changes to the federal audit office and a new national system for citizen complaints, with a March 18 forum set to gather stakeholders.