{"id":100310,"date":"2026-07-09T06:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100310\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T06:45:11","slug":"switzerland-and-mexico-to-update-free-trade-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100310\/","title":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Mexico to update free trade agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/e07212b308bacb8f9418aa577253cb0bff465798-91718902.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"Switzerland and Mexico want to modernise their free trade agreement\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Switzerland and Mexico want to modernise their free trade agreement            <\/p>\n<p>            Keystone-SDA        <\/p>\n<p>        The free trade agreement (FTA) between Mexico and European Free Trade Association (EFTA)  states, including Switzerland, is to be updated.\n<\/p>\n<p>            Listen to the article        <\/p>\n<p>            Listening the article        <\/p>\n<p>                Toggle language selector            <\/p>\n<p>                            English (US)                        <\/p>\n<p>                            English (British)                        <\/p>\n<p>            Generated with artificial intelligence.        <\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        July 9, 2026 &#8211; 08:16\n<\/p>\n<p>This was confirmed by Swiss economics minister Guy Parmelin and his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum, in Mexico City. <\/p>\n<p>This EFTA-Mexico FTA is now 25 years old. Mexico is Switzerland\u2019s second most important trading partner in Latin America, according to the economics ministry. Switzerland is also the sixth-largest investor in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/foreign-affairs\/who-benefits-from-free-trade-agreements-with-switzerland\/83968513\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">+ Who benefits from free trade agreements with Switzerland?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alongside Switzerland, EFTA comprises Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.<\/p>\n<p>Parmelin is currently travelling through Mexico with a business delegation and meeting with various ministers and representatives of local companies.<\/p>\n<p>Switzerland opened its first consulate in Mexico as early as 1827.<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/584330ed4ea85a33d2bf41cab5c30eb45b473779-91604943.jpg\" width=\"1400\" height=\"1050\" alt=\"National Council discusses details of the Mercosur free trade agreement\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Agribusiness\n        <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss House rejects EFTA-Mercosur free trade deal    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Jun 17, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                The Swiss House of Representatives has rejected the free trade deal between EFTA and Mercosur.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/agribusiness\/swiss-house-rejects-mercosur-free-trade-deal\/91605066\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss House rejects EFTA-Mercosur free trade deal<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>+ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/about-us\/how-swissinfo-produces-news-in-english\/91695684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">How we produce English news<\/a><br \/>Translated from German, reviewed by an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/department\/english-department\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">English Department<\/a> journalist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Switzerland and Mexico want to modernise their free trade agreement Keystone-SDA The free trade agreement (FTA) between Mexico&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,564,368,114,2143,100,15197,566,103,17],"class_list":["post-100310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-global-trade","tag-beat-trade-policy","tag-business","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-latest-news","tag-macro-economics","tag-multinationals","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116888674165791079","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}