COVID-19: New opportunity for Mexico’s Trade Relationship with China relaunch

Abstract

In this article, the existing commercial relations between Mexico and the People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) are analyzed from a comparative perspective, emphasizing the perspective that the situation of SARS-COV 2 or COVID-19 opens for a relaunch of relations between both countries, after in recent years there was a distancing explained by various factors of both a political and economic nature. The characteristics of trade relations since the establishment of diplomatic and economic relations are probably reviewed, emphasizing the fact that these have not favored Mexico, but that, however, unexpectedly both the United States trade war against China as well as the pandemic of COVID-19, they are creating the possibility of confirming the reduction in the balance of the trade balance, so it must redefine its trade policy. The hypothesis is that Mexico should take advantage of the recent bilateral relationship situation with China, to reduce the trade deficit with that country from the increase in agricultural trade and China´s new infrastructure investment in Mexico.