Energy Transition Under the New NAFTA: Challenges in the Critical Minerals Supply Chain

Yet, for the past three decades in Mexico, auto-component manufacturing plants have expanded dramatically in northern and central regions of the country following the inception of NAFTA in the 1990s, with Mexico effectively absorbing the manufacturing market from its neighbours. [...] The national policy includes exploration moratoriums on other minerals and carries with it uncertainty in the mineral sector, with impacts for the larger trilateral trade evolution of the US-Canada-Mexico Trade Agreement (USMCA), or “New NAFTA.” CANADIAN MINING AND MEXICO Despite its rising mineral output over the past thirty years, Mexico’s standing in the future continental integration of batter. [...] With the dominance of Canada in the foreign and joint- ownership space of the mining sector, there is a clear responsibility to acknowledge and improve damaging industry practices that contribute to Mexico’s reputation for some of the highest rates of mining-related social conflicts in the Western hemisphere. [...] She specializes in complex governance and security and is an Affiliate of the Rethinking Latin American Studies from the South working group and a member of the Canada-Mexico Chamber of Commerce. [...] 10 ABOUT THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY The School of Public Policy has become the flagship school of DISCLAIMER its kind in Canada by providing a practical, global and focused The opinions expressed in perspective on public policy analysis and practice in areas these publications are the of energy and environmental policy, international policy and authors’ alone and therefore do not necessarily refl.