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Mexican President Visits US With Focus on Trade

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   WHITE HOUSE - PresidentDonaldTrump welcomed MexicanPresident Andres
   Manuel Lopez Obradorto the White House on Wednesday for meetings on
   trade, the economy and immigration, days after a new United
   States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal among the two
   countries and Canada went into effect.

   "The relationship betweentheU.S. and Mexico has never been closer than
   it is right now," Trump said before the two leaderssigned a joint
   declarationin theRose Garden that "recognizes the advancements our two
   countries have achieved toward a renewed and strengthened partnership
   equipped to the 21st-century economic and security challenges of our
   North American region."

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