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2026年3月12日 15:40 UTC（更新于54分钟前）
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美国亚利桑那州民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈（Ruben Gallego）于2026年2月24日在美国华盛顿特区举行的”人民国情咨文”活动上发表讲话，该活动在美国总统特朗普国情咨文演讲前举行。路透社/Elizabeth Frantz/资料照片 [购买许可权，新标签页打开]
华盛顿，3月12日（路透社） – 民主党参议员鲁本·加列戈周四敦促特朗普政府重新谈判北美贸易协定，以确保中国无法通过墨西哥境内的中资工厂对美国制造商造成新的”冲击”。
来自亚利桑那州的加列戈在致总统唐纳德·特朗普及其贸易代表杰米森·格里尔（Jamieson Greer）的信中写道，在即将到来的审查中，美墨加协定（USMCA）的原产地规则需要得到加强，以确保政府支持的中国企业不能将USMCA作为”后门”进入美国市场。
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加列戈在信中表示：”中国对墨西哥的出口以及中国企业在墨西哥的直接投资，有可能通过南部边境进入美国的商品，在美国引发又一次’中国冲击’。”
他还敦促格里尔和特朗普要求墨西哥制造业实施最低工资标准，目前墨西哥汽车工人时薪平均仅为5.70美元，而美国为35.30美元。他称，设立最低工资标准将为墨西哥工人提供更多稳定，从而解决非法移民到美国的根本原因。
加列戈作为众议院成员于2019年12月投票批准了USMCA协定，他表示，部分USMCA条款未能兑现承诺，需要加强，包括对某些汽车零部件要求16美元/小时的劳工价值含量规定。
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他还呼吁恢复美国劳工部国际劳工事务局的协议，以帮助提高墨西哥的劳工标准，这些标准曾被特朗普政府削减。
这封信发出之际，格里尔和墨西哥经济部长马塞洛·埃布拉德（Marcelo Ebrard）计划于下周开始就USMCA贸易协定的六年期审查进行谈判，该审查是协定要求的。
美国贸易代表办公室（USTR）发言人未立即回应置评请求，但格里尔经常对中国在墨西哥及其他国家工厂的投资表示担忧，尤其是在中国国内，特别是钢铁和汽车行业产能过剩时。
中国和其他15个美国贸易伙伴的此类过剩产能，是美国贸易代表办公室周三宣布的一项新不公平贸易行为调查的重点，该调查部分旨在在最高法院受挫后重建特朗普政府的关税压力。
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US Democrat urges stronger USMCA rules on Chinese goods, factories in Mexico
By David Lawder
March 12, 2026 3:40 PM UTC Updated 54 mins ago
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U.S. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D–AZ) speaks during the “People’s State of the Union” event ahead of U.S. President Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 24, 2026. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/ File Photo [Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab]
WASHINGTON, March 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. must renegotiate the North American trade deal to ensure that China cannot inflict a new “shock” to U.S. manufacturers via Chinese-owned factories in Mexico, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego urged the Trump administration on Thursday.
Gallego, who is from Arizona, wrote in a letter to President Donald Trump and his trade representative, Jamieson Greer, that in an upcoming review, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s rules of origin need to be strengthened to ensure that government-supported Chinese firms cannot use USMCA as a “back door” to access the U.S. market.
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“Chinese exports to Mexico and Chinese firms’ direct investment in Mexico raises the possibility of another China shock occurring in the United States via goods entering through the Southern border,” Gallego wrote.
He also urged Greer and Trump to demand a minimum wage in Mexico’s manufacturing sector, where auto workers average only $5.70 an hour compared with $35.30 in the U.S. A wage floor would provide Mexican workers with more stability, addressing a root cause of illegal migration to the U.S., he said.
Gallego, who voted to approve the USMCA deal in December 2019 as a member of the House of Representatives, said that some USMCA provisions had failed to deliver on their promises and needed to be strengthened, including a $16-per-hour labor value content requirement for certain automotive components.
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He also called for restoration of the Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs agreements to help build up Mexico’s labor standards, which were cut by the Trump administration.
The letter comes as Greer and Mexican Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard are scheduled to start negotiations next week on a six-year review of the USMCA trade pact that was required under the agreement.
A USTR spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but Greer has often raised concerns about China’s investment in factories in Mexico and other countries when it has growing excess manufacturing capacity at home, particularly in the steel and automotive sectors.
Such excess capacity in China and 15 other U.S. trading partners is the focus of a new unfair trade practices investigation announced by USTR on Wednesday that is aimed partly at rebuilding the Trump administration’s tariff pressure after a Supreme Court setback.
Reporting by David Lawder in Washington; Editing by Matthew Lewis
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