WASHINGTON – The United States has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRM) in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to review whether workers at Freixenet de Mexico, S.A. de C.V., located in Ezequiel Montes, Queretaro, Mexico, are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining. The United States has suspended liquidation of unliquidated entries of goods into this country from the Freixenet facility, which manufactures and commercializes cava and still wines. Today’s action demonstrates the Trump administration’s America First approach, which ensures our trade partners do not undermine worker protections to gain an unfair trade advantage or attract investment.  The Secretary of Labor and the United States Trade Representative co-chair the Interagency Labor Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement (ILC). On October 29, 2025, the ILC received an RRM petition from Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Industria Alimenticia en General, Lácteos, Gastronómicos, Hoteles, Comercios, Franquicias, Similares y Conexos, C.T.M. The petition alleges that the company violated workers’ rights by interfering in employees’ union activity, discouraging worker support for a specific union, facilitating meetings for the company’s preferred union, and encouraging workers to support that 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 to review whether workers at Freixenet 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.  The RRM, developed under the first Trump administration, is an unprecedented trade tool that helps to level the playing field for American workers and businesses by preventing Mexican businesses from gaining a competitive advantage by violating labor laws.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. Learn more about the department’s work to make global competition fair for American workers.  # # #