A powerful U.S.-based automakers group said on Tuesday that it favors keeping rules of origin intact in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), echoing comments from its Mexican counterpart.
Under the trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rules of origin stipulate that products must meet minimum regional, or NAFTA-wide, content requirements to be tariff-free.
“We believe the NAFTA rule of origin, which establishes the highest threshold of any free trade agreement the U.S. has ever negotiated, should remain intact,” Annemarie Pender, spokeswoman for the Association of Global Automakers, told Reuters.
The trade group represents Honda Motor Co (7267.T), Nissan Motor Co Ltd (7201.T), Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS) and other major foreign automakers in the United States.
The president of the Mexican automakers’ association said on Monday that the auto industries of the United States, Canada and Mexico agreed there should be no changes to rules of origin, describing them as key to creating value and integrating the auto industry in North America.
via Reuters
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