The United States and Mexico affirm our broad and deep cooperation and commitment to building a more prosperous and secure future for the people of North America. As we face unprecedented global and regional challenges that require the concerted efforts of the two nations, we stand for democracy, inclusive growth, transparency, the rule of law and human rights as core values that underpin our security and shared prosperity.
The United States and Mexico, along with Canada, represent an economic power. The basis of American competitiveness is the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement and we reaffirm our commitment to its full implementation for the benefit of working families, including compliance with their labor provisions and active collaboration with private sector and civil society stakeholders. . By actively coordinating our economic policies, we will make our supply chains more resilient and expand production in North America. We look forward to working on this and other relevant issues at the 10th North American Leaders Summit (NALS), which will take place in Mexico later this year.
Rising inflation affects the well-being of families in both countries and requires strong, immediate and concerted action. That is why we are committed to jointly fighting inflation by accelerating the facilitation of bilateral trade and reducing trade costs. The US-Mexico-Canada agreement improves the free movement of goods without barriers, which promotes innovation that increases productivity and increases resilience, helping both countries fight inflation and supporting families. As part of joint efforts to improve food security, Mexico plans to buy up to 20,000 tons of milk powder from the United States to help Mexican families in rural and urban communities. In addition, Mexico will buy up to one million tons of fertilizer (ammonium sulfate) in the United States to distribute to subsistence farmers and continue to buy feed to help smallholders.
Borders that are stronger, more efficient and safer will improve our shared trade. We are committed as never before to completing a joint multi-year effort to modernize the U.S.-Mexico border infrastructure for projects along the 2,000-mile border. The joint effort aims to align priorities, unite border communities and make the flow of trade and people safer and more efficient. President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act includes $ 3.4 billion to carry out 26 major construction and modernization projects at inland ports entering the northern and southern borders. These land port modernization projects will create well-paid local jobs, strengthen security, and make the economy more resilient to supply chain challenges, while serving as models of sustainability and innovation. Mexico has pledged to invest $ 1.5 billion in border infrastructure between 2022 and 2024.
The upcoming US-Mexico High Level Economic Dialogue (HLED) in September will focus on strengthening mechanisms to create safer and more efficient brokers for trade and commerce, fostering an investment-friendly environment to help generate more and better jobs for our people in both countries. . We reaffirm our efforts to create a more inclusive, more educated, more competitive and better-trained workforce to meet the needs of the 21st century economy. We reiterate our commitment to outreach to understand stakeholder considerations to increase investment and strengthen supply chain resilience, specifically in strategic sectors such as semiconductors and information and communication technologies. We will focus our development efforts on climate solutions and the development of southern Mexico, with its great human potential and important opportunities for trade, conservation and clean energy.
Faced with the shared challenges of climate change, we decided to promote a business environment that promotes a greener and cleaner North America, recognizing the importance of investing in and promoting renewable energy sources. We are committed to tackling methane emissions from oil and gas and other sectors, accelerating the transition to zero-emission vehicles, and deepening our efforts to seek nature-based solutions that will enable our two countries to convert. become world leaders in clean energy and climate action. exchange. In support of the Global Methane Pledge and Global Methane Pledge Energy Pathway, Mexico and Pemex, in cooperation with the US, will develop an implementation plan to eliminate routine torsion and ventilation in onshore and offshore oil and gas operations and identify projects priorities for investment.
Through the Bicentennial Framework for Security, Public Health and Safe Communities, we reaffirmed our commitment to work together to address the major security issues affecting our nations, including the challenges of fentanyl, arms trafficking. and human trafficking, and to reduce levels of drug abuse. and addiction. We are committed to deepening our cooperation in combating transnational criminal organizations that promote violence in our countries. We have reaffirmed strong operational efforts among law enforcement agencies to address these overarching security efforts. We pledged to establish a US-Mexico operational working group to disrupt the flow of fentanyl to our countries.
Based on the commitments made at the Summit of the Americas by twenty-one countries in the hemisphere in accordance with the Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection, we are taking immediate and coordinated action to manage the influx of migrants arriving. in our countries. We have joined forces to address the underlying economic and security drivers of migration and, recognizing that development must be at the heart of all migration policies, accelerate and expand international cooperation programs focused on the most marginalized communities. At the same time, we will maintain strong border enforcement policies and ensure full protection of human rights.
The United States and Mexico reaffirmed our commitment to launch a bilateral working group on labor migration pathways and worker protection. We will work to promote greater worker protection as part of a labor mobility strategy for migrant workers seeking access to legal avenues. Mexico and the United States will also convene a working group to strengthen our cross-border response to child migration, a phenomenon that has significantly affected both countries and put young people in unnecessary danger. We also reaffirm our commitment to improving economic and social conditions throughout the region, creating decent job opportunities as viable alternatives for potential migrants and helping to address the root causes of migration to the Americas.
The tragic deaths of migrants at the hands of human traffickers in San Antonio further strengthen our determination to go after the multimillion-dollar criminal trafficking industry that takes advantage of migrants and increase our efforts to address the root causes of migration. The departments of Justice and Homeland Security and the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico have coordinated to arrest and prosecute those who endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants, including through the work of the Alpha Task Force Alpha and its Mexican partners. This year our countries will celebrate 200 years of formal diplomatic relations. As neighbors, friends, and family, we are united as two nations sharing the same future.
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