Brazil, Argentina 押し進める for closer 貿易(する) with Mexico in Trump 時代

By Alonso Soto

BRASILIA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The leaders of Brazil and Argentina said on Tuesday they would 追求する closer 関係 with Mexico and other Latin American nations alarmed by U.S. 大統領 Donald Trump's 約束s to 涙/ほころび apart 貿易(する) 取引,協定s and build a 塀で囲む to 保護する American 職業s.

In a 公式訪問 to Brasilia, Argentina 大統領 Mauricio Macri said that South American 地域の 貿易(する) 圏 Mercosur would 焦点(を合わせる) on 強化するing its 関係 with Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy after Brazil.

Trump has abandoned the Trans-太平洋の 共同 取引,協定 that 目的(とする)d to 支える 貿易(する) between 12 太平洋の 縁 nations, 含むing Mexico, Chile and Peru.

In his (選挙などの)運動をする to keep 製造業の 職業s in the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs, Trump has also 脅すd to 非難する higher 税金s on U.S. companies 開始 new 工場/植物s abroad and 約束d to rework the North American 解放する/自由な 貿易(する) 協定 with Canada and Mexico.

緊張s are running 特に high with Mexico after Trump ordered the construction of a 塀で囲む along its 2,000-mile (3,200-km) 国境 with the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs to stop 違法な 移民/移住.

Those moves were あられ/賞賛するd by Macri, who (機の)カム to 力/強力にする in 2015 on a 商売/仕事-friendly program, and his Brazilian 相当するもの Michel Temer as an 適切な時期 to 深くする 貿易(する) 関係 within Latin America, long 影を投げかけるd by Washington's 経済的な might.

"This change in シナリオ will make Mexico turn to the South with more 有罪の判決," Macri said in a 声明, after 署名/調印するing a 一連の small 取引,協定s with Temer, a 中道派(の) who assumed the 大統領/総裁などの地位 last year after the 告発 of Dilma Rousseff.

Macri said he spoke with Mexican 大統領 Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday to discuss 深くするing 協調 between Mexico and Mercosur and wished him good luck in his 取引 with the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs.

DITCHING PROTECTIONISM?

Both Macri and Temer are 捜し出すing to open their countries - for 10年間s considered の中で the most の近くにd economies in the Western 半球 - in an 成果/努力 to 生き返らせる activity after years of 後退,不況.

Some 地元の 貿易(する) 専門家s say a 可能性のある 不和 between the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs and Mexico could open up space for Latin American nations.

"Mexico 代表するs a 広大な/多数の/重要な 適切な時期 for Brazil and the 地域," said Welber Barral, the former international 貿易(する) 長官 for Brazil from 2007 to 2011. "Mexico is a 抱擁する importer of 農業の 製品s and its car 産業 could complement that of Brazil."

Since 2015, Brazil, a major 輸出業者 of corn and soy, has been in 二国間の/相互の 交渉s with Mexico to 増加する 商業の 関係 under a 地域の 貿易協定.

The 貿易(する) flow between Latin America's biggest economies has dropped nearly 10 パーセント between 2012 and 2016 to $7.3 billion, 概略で the size of 商業 between Brazil and the much-smaller Chile.

Both Macri and Temer also hope that the Mercosur can take advantage of the 明らかな change in the U.S. 貿易(する) posture to の近くに a 自由貿易 を取り引きする the European Union in 会談 that have dragged on for more than a 10年間.

After 一時停止するing 社会主義者-led Venezuela from Mercosur last year に引き続いて Caracas' 執拗な 失敗 to 会合,会う 入ること/参加(者) 必要物/必要条件s, Argentina and Brazil are gearing up to 延長する 貿易(する) 関係. Smaller neighbors Paraguay and Uruguay are also members of Mercosur.

緊張s over 市場参入, however, continue to dog the 地域の 貿易(する) 圏. Although Buenos 空気/公表するs is willing to discuss the 入ること/参加(者) of Brazilian sugar into its market, its move to 増加する 税金 利益s to 地元の 自動車 parts 製造業者s has infuriated Brazilian 競争相手s.

In an interview with Brazilian newspapers published on Tuesday, Macri complained about his country's $4.3 billion 貿易(する) 赤字 with Brazil. (報告(する)/憶測ing by Alonso Soto; Editing by Paul Simao and Dan Grebler)

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