Insights and Stories on NAFTA

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit.

Trudeau wants CUSMA deal ratified quickly

Jan. 21, 2020 at 11:13 am CST

Winnipeg | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday urged legislators to quickly approve a new continental trade pact but the main opposition party said it wanted to study the deal, indicating the ratification process could drag on. Canada is the only one of the three signatories not […]

U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

Jan. 16, 2020 at 1:29 pm CST

By Reuters

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

Jan. 4, 2020 at 2:40 am CST

By Dave Bedard

U.S. House passes CUSMA

Dec. 19, 2019 at 3:47 pm CST

By Reuters

Opposition MPs could delay CUSMA deal’s ratification

Dec. 11, 2019 at 7:44 pm CST

By David Ljunggren

Canada, U.S., Mexico sign agreement, again, to replace NAFTA

Dec. 10, 2019 at 1:45 pm CST

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — Top officials from Canada, Mexico and the United States signed a fresh overhaul of a quarter-century-old trade pact on Tuesday that aims to improve enforcement of worker rights and hold down prices for biologic drugs by eliminating a patent provision. The signing ceremony in Mexico […]

By Andrea Shalal Sharay Angulo

Freeland, U.S. and Mexican officials to meet to pin down trade deal

Dec. 9, 2019 at 7:46 pm CST

Washington/Mexico City | Reuters — The Trump administration, Mexico and U.S. Democrats on Monday closed in on a deal for labour-related changes to a languishing North American trade pact that may soon allow it to proceed to a vote, as the window for passage this year quickly narrows. U.S. Trade […]

By David Lawder Sharay Angulo

Exterior of the Chicago Board of Trade building.

CBOT weekly outlook: Impeachment process stifles markets

Nov. 20, 2019 at 2:40 pm CST

MarketsFarm — U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment hearings have dominated headlines and stalled progress in numerous trade developments, leaving the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) starved of meaningful news. The Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) has yet to be ratified by the U.S. House of Representatives. The trade pact, meant to replace […]

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Supply-managed sector compensation details due before election

Jul. 22, 2019 at 5:50 am CDT

Federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has pledged to lay out details on trade pact compensation for supply-managed sectors before the federal election in October. The pledge comes as the federal Liberals face pressure from supply-managed sectors and the federal opposition Conservatives to deliver on compensation for access granted to the […]

By GFM Staff

USMCA dispute panel fix must be ‘across the board,’ Mexico says

Jul. 11, 2019 at 5:38 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico sees a push to close a dispute resolution loophole in the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade deal as a way to protect its interests as well as helping satisfy demands by U.S. Democrats that the deal contain stricter labour measures, a senior official said on Thursday. Reuters […]

By Reuters

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