The presidents of the Mexican Employers' Confederation (Coparmex), José Antonio González Barreda, and the National Chamber of Commerce, Services, and Tourism of Ciudad Juárez (Canaco), Iván Antonio Pérez Ruiz, have ruled out rejoining the Business Coordinating Council (CCE) of the border region.
This comes after the organization announced the inclusion of new members this week, such as the National Association of Businesswomen (Amexme), the Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals (AMPI), the Sales and Marketing Executives (EVM), and the National Chamber of Road Transport (Canacar), among others. The leaders of Coparmex and Canaco have distanced themselves from returning.
"The short answer is no, we do not plan to return as members of the Business Coordinating Council," the president of Coparmex told Norte Digital after leading a press conference at the Technology Hub on Adolfo López Mateos avenue.
However, he noted that they are interested in business unity on common issues.
They will work on how that unity and collaboration will take shape, he added.
"We work with all organizations, for example, on issues like the infrastructure being built with the surcharge on Payroll Tax," he pointed out.
They have been working with everyone, Canacintra, Economic Development, Business Coordinating Council, Index, CMIC, he commented after recalling that the employers' organization left the CCE five years ago, on May 4, 2021.
González Barreda described the coordination as "very effective" and announced that they will continue to do so, but "specifically doing it within the Business Coordinating Council is not something we have considered yet."
To work for Juárez, you don't need to be in the CCE: Canaco
The leader of organized commerce, Iván Antonio Pérez Ruiz, addressed the issue at the organization's weekly press conference, stating first that they were the pioneers in modifying the statutes before deciding to withdraw on July 7 of this year.
"It's good that Canaco was actually the pioneer in modifying some statutes, (although) we have to see how they were modified, and my congratulations, and it's good, I insist, that in Canaco we were the pioneers so that after twenty-five years the CCE could open up," he pointed out.
According to Pérez, it was this openness that now allowed new members to join.
When asked when the Juárez Chamber of Commerce would return to the CCE, Pérez Ruiz replied that they have not discussed it and that they currently have "many important pending issues."
The fact that they do not belong to the CCE, which he referred to as an expensive organization, does not prevent them from continuing to work hand-in-hand with everyone else, those who belong and those who do not.
"Working for Juárez does not mean being in the CCE, but having the will to do things for the city and work on certain projects or issues that interest everyone," he affirmed.
Although there are issues that are not in agreement with other guilds, there are others, such as infrastructure or security, on which they work hand-in-hand, even if they do not belong to the CCE, he insisted.
"We will always have an open hand to work in favor of it; (...) there are issues that we have to work on together and there must always be dialogue with other organizations, without it being necessary to be in the CCE," he remarked.
