MEXICO CITY, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Mexican officials will meet with their U.S. counterparts in Washington next week to hold "the best possible negotiation" on trade tariffs, President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday.

At her daily press conference, the president said a government delegation will travel to the U.S. capital on Friday to begin talks on several issues, as she had previously announced during a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Canada in June.

"This week, a team from the Mexican government is traveling to the United States to work on this global agreement that we discussed at the G7 with President Trump," Sheinbaum said, adding that the delegation will be led by Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard, and will also include representatives from the secretariats of the Treasury and Foreign Affairs.

The agenda will go beyond the current United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) on free trade to seek broader strategic collaboration on three key issues: security, immigration and trade.

Security will center on the shared U.S.-Mexico border, while immigration talks will address regional pressure from migratory flows, and trade will focus on the possibility of new tariffs.

"Of course, we will always seek the best conditions for Mexico," said Sheinbaum.

Sheinbaum noted her administration recently unveiled a strategy to strengthen the domestic pharmaceutical industry and added that the United States is not the only country with which it can trade.

"The decisions often come from the United States government, and what we seek is to provide support in order to generate, for example, in the area of copper, other export schemes, because copper is needed in many parts of the world," the president said.

A 50 percent tariff on copper will start on Aug. 1, said Trump on Wednesday. He has so far sent tariff letters to 22 countries, informing their leaders of tariffs ranging from 25 to 50 percent. ■