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\"Our relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour. Some really good people within both the new and old government, and all working closely together ... A big Trade Agreement with Mexico could be happening soon!\" he tweeted.

The agreement between the U.S. and Mexico Monday mostly focuses on automobile manufacturing.

The two main provisions include a requirement that 40-45 percent of all automobile components be made by workers earning $16 or more per hour, aimed at helping the U.S. compete against low wage auto workers abroad, and also new rules requiring a significant portion of automobile parts -- 75 percent -- be made in the U.S. and Mexico.

\"This is going to be a great day for Detroit,\" Lighthizer said in a briefing call with reporters.

An administration offical said the border wall and immigration were not a part of negotiations with Mexico.

\"That was not part of the discussion today or part of this negotiation. That's a separate matter,\" Navarro told ABC News. In the past, Trump has said Mexico would pay for the border wall indirectly via NAFTA.

Following the July election of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Trump predicted that he will have a \"very good relationship\" with the newly-elected Mexican president.

Trump told reporters in July that he had a 30-minute phone call with Lopez Obrador, who assumes office on Dec. 1, about trade, border security and a potential U.S.-Mexico trade deal.

\"I think the relationship will be a very good one. We'll see what happens,\" Trump said, adding that Mexico's election was \"better than anticipated.\"

Lopez Obrador, a leftist, thanked Trump on Friday for treating Mexicans with more respect.

\"For some time now, (Trump) has been very prudent in referring to Mexicans, or he hasn't said offensive things,\" Lopez Obrador said. \"I have to thank him for that. ... Up to now, things are going well. There has been respect.\"

Trump's inflammatory rhetoric about Mexicans began the day he launched his campaign in June 2015.

\"When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best...they’re bringing those problems with us,\" he said at a campaign rally. \"They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Trump made border security a cornerstone of his campaign for president and has repeatedly threatened to rip up NAFTA, blaming the trade agreement, which came into effect in 1994 while Bill Clinton was president, for the loss of manufacturing jobs in America's Rust Belt.

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