Mexican factory workers in a maquiladora district.
Many Chinese companies have factories here too.
China has concluded trade agreements with nearly every country on the planet, promising unprecedented market access. While the ministers in Geneva debate protocol and bureaucratic structures, China and Mexico remain in deadlock over a bilateral trade agreement. Mexican Economic Minister Ernest Derbez Printer version International Trade Statistics at the WTO Mexico, a founding member of the WTO, is the only country that has yet to conclude a trade agreement with China. Without an agreement, China will be excluded from entering the organization. If such a scenario occurs, the trade agreements with the USA and European Union will not go into effect as they assume admittance to the WTO in 2001.