Negotiations to complete the CPTPP trade deal including Japan, Mexico, Canada and others run from January 22 in an attempt to finalize a deal that was nearly completed last November. While much of the focus has been on Canada’s demands in non-goods chapters of the deal, it should be noted that Mexico’s positioning is just as important with parallel NAFTA talks this week. Mexico’s exports to CPTPP excluding Canada are led by Japan (35% of the past year’s total, including $870 million of oil exports) and Chile (23% led by $870 million of aerospace sales). Other product lines the Mexican ne...