WASHINGTON – The Office of the United States Trade Representative has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to review whether workers at Superior Industries de Mexico, S. de R.L. de C.V. (Superior Industries), located in the city and state of Chihuahua, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The United States has suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods from the Superior Industries facility, which manufactures light vehicle aluminum wheels.
Background
The United States Trade Representative and the Secretary of Labor co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement (ILC). On May 5, 2025, the ILC received an RRM petition from the Secretary General of the Confederación Autónoma de Trabajadores y Empleados de México (CATEM), a Mexican labor union. The petition alleges that Superior Industries has violated workers’ rights by using intimidation and harassment to discourage workers from supporting a union. The ILC reviews RRM petitions that it receives, and the accompanying information, within 30 days.
After conducting this review, the ILC determined that there is sufficient, credible evidence of a denial of rights enabling the good faith invocation of enforcement mechanisms. As a result, the United States Trade Representative has submitted a request to Mexico that Mexico review whether workers at Superior Industries are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. Mexico has 10 days to agree to conduct a review and, if it agrees, 45 days from today to complete the review.
A copy of the request for review can be found here.
A copy of the letter to the Secretary of the Treasury can be found here.
Information about previous requests can be found here.
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