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...Ildefonso Guajardo, Mexico’s economy minister, told Congress last week that the way things stood, an end to Nafta “cannot sanely be ruled out”....
...Carlos Blackaller, president of Mexico’s nation union of cane growers, last week published an open letter to Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, urging the government not to “subordinate our activity...
...You have to be pragmatic, because of Nafta,” said Carlos Véjar, a trade attorney at Holland & Knight and former general counsel for international trade at the Mexican economy ministry....
...Ildefonso Guajardo, Mexico’s economy minister, said the main challenge confronting the three sides was finding any common ground....
...“There will be a cascade,” said Jorge Guajardo, the former Mexican ambassador to China, who is now based in Washington....
...Carlos Serrano, chief economist at BBVA Bancomer in Mexico City, said: “Trump’s bluff didn’t come off.”...
...He’s racist and that’s why he doesn’t want Mexican sugar,” grumbles Carlos Vázquez, a 52-year-old mechanic at the Tala sugar mill near Guadalajara, who fears for his job if the US gets its way....
...Carlos Rello, the head of Mexico’s state-owned mills, signalled a willingness this month to accept a deal with the US setting a minimum export threshold of 1m-1.3m tons....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, the executive director of Cesco, a mining research group in Santiago, said: “Without those projects the viability of Codelco as a company will be seriously compromised . . ....
...of companies that offer telephone landlines — an issue, no doubt, of some considerable concern to Carlos Slim, who owns a lion’s share of the phone market in Mexico....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, director of Chilean copper think-tank Cesco, said the response of Codelco’s unions to any deal would depend on how much compensation Codelco received for relinquishing its claim....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, executive director of the Chilean copper industry think-tank CESCO, adds: “I think this is a road they will start to travel....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, director of Chilean copper think-tank Cesco, expects the country’s output to grow just 1.5-2 per cent this year – well below most western analysts’ estimates....
...It’s very hard to explain why Chile has such a low tax rate compared to Peru,” says Juan Carlos Guajardo, executive director of Cesco, Chile’s copper industry think-tank....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, director of Cesco, a mining industry think-tank, says he would not be surprised to see Codelco increase its project budget – already $17.5bn – over the next five years....
...Juan Carlos Guajardo, executive director of Chile’s Centre for Copper and Mining Studies, says: “$9,000 is no longer the last frontier for copper....
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