The United States and Mexico reaffirm our broad and deep cooperation and commitment to building a more prosperous and secure future for the people of North America. As we face unprecedented global and regional challenges that require the concerted efforts of our two nations, we uphold democracy, inclusive growth, transparency, the rule of law and human rights as core values that underpin our shared security and prosperity.
The United States and Mexico, along with Canada, represent an economic powerhouse. The foundation of competitiveness in North America is the Agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada, and we reaffirm our commitment to its full implementation for the benefit of working families, including through full compliance with labor regulations and active collaboration with private sector and civil society stakeholders. . By actively coordinating our economic policies, we will make our supply chains more sustainable and expand manufacturing in North America. We look forward to working on this and other related issues at the 10th North American Leaders’ Summit (NALS) in Mexico later this year.
Rising inflation is impacting the well-being of families in both our countries and requires strong, immediate and concerted action. That is why we have jointly committed to fight inflation by accelerating bilateral trade facilitation and reducing trade costs. The agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada improves the free flow of goods without barriers, which encourages innovation that increases productivity and increases resilience, helping both countries fight inflation and support families. As part of a joint effort to improve food security, Mexico plans to purchase up to 20,000 tons of powdered milk from the United States to help Mexican families in rural and urban communities. In addition, Mexico will buy up to one million tons of fertilizer (ammonium sulfate) from the United States to distribute to subsistence farmers and will continue to buy animal feed to help small producers.
Borders that are more resilient, more efficient and safer will improve our shared trade. We are committed as never before to completing a multi-year collaborative effort to upgrade US-Mexico border infrastructure for projects along the 2,000-mile border. The joint effort seeks to align priorities, unite border communities, and make the flow of trade and people more secure and efficient. President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill includes $3.4 billion to undertake 26 major land port of entry construction and upgrade projects on the northern and southern borders. These land port modernization projects will create good-paying local jobs, improve safety and security, and make the economy more resilient to supply chain challenges—all while serving as models for sustainability and innovation. Mexico has committed to investing $1.5 billion in border infrastructure between 2022 and 2024.
The next US-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) in September will focus on strengthening mechanisms to create more secure and efficient trade and commerce corridors, fostering an environment that encourages investment to help create more and better jobs for our people in both countries. We reaffirm our efforts to create a more inclusive workforce that is better educated, more competitive and better trained to meet the needs of the 21st century economy. We reaffirm our commitment to reach out to understand stakeholder considerations to increase investment and strengthen supply chain resilience, particularly in strategic sectors such as semiconductors and information and communication technologies. We will focus our development efforts on climate solutions and the development of southern Mexico, with its vast human potential and important opportunities for trade, conservation and clean energy.
Faced with the shared challenges of climate change, we resolve to foster a business environment that promotes a greener and cleaner North America, recognizing the importance of investing in and promoting renewable energy sources. We are committed to tackling methane emissions from oil and gas and other sectors, accelerating the transition to zero-emission vehicles and deepening our efforts to seek nature-based solutions, enabling our two countries to become world leaders in clean energy and action to combat climate change. In support of the Global Methane Pledge and the Global Methane Pledge Energy Pathway, Mexico and Pemex, in collaboration with the US, will develop an implementation plan to eliminate routine flaring and venting in onshore and offshore oil and gas operations and identify priority projects for investments.
Through the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health, and Safe Communities, we reaffirmed our commitment to work together to address the major security issues affecting our nations, including the challenges of fentanyl, arms trafficking, and people smuggling, and to reduce levels of drug abuse and addiction. We are committed to deepening our cooperation to fight the transnational criminal organizations that fuel violence in our two countries. We confirmed robust operational efforts among law enforcement agencies to address these top security efforts. We pledged to create a US-Mexico task force to cut off the flow of fentanyl into our countries.
Based on the Summit of the Americas commitments made by twenty-one countries in the hemisphere under the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, we are taking immediate and coordinated steps to manage the flows of migrants arriving in our countries. We have joined forces to address the main economic and security drivers of migration and, recognizing that development must be at the heart of all migration policies, we will accelerate and expand international cooperation programs focused on the most marginalized communities. At the same time, we will maintain strong border control policies while ensuring full protection of human rights.
The United States and Mexico reaffirmed our commitment to establish a bilateral working group on labor migration pathways and worker protection. We will work to promote greater worker protections as part of a labor mobility strategy for migrant workers seeking access to legal pathways. Mexico and the United States will also convene a task force to strengthen our cross-border response to child migration, a phenomenon that has significantly affected both of our countries and puts young people at unnecessary risk. We also reaffirm our promise to improve economic and social conditions across the region, creating decent work opportunities as viable alternatives for would-be migrants and helping to address the root causes of migration in America.
The tragic death of migrants at the hands of people smugglers in San Antonio further strengthens our resolve to pursue the multi-billion dollar criminal smuggling industry that preys on migrants and to increase our efforts to address the root causes of migration. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security and the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico have coordinated to arrest and prosecute those who threaten the lives of vulnerable migrants, including through the work of Joint Task Force Alpha and its Mexican partners. This year our countries will celebrate 200 years of official diplomatic relations. As neighbors, friends and family, we are united as two nations sharing one future.
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