Following President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s announcement nominating Deputy Secretary Jesús Seade to the post of Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the current chief USMCA negotiator today held a virtual press conference. The exchange with national reporters and foreign correspondents was held to explain the candidacy of the deputy secretary, who has had a long and prominent career, as the next step needed to strengthen the World Trade Organization, specifically, and the global multilateral architecture, overall.
