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NAFTA | USMCA

North America Free Trade Agreement | US-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Eli Lilly loses quixotic quest to get Canada to pay $500 million for rejecting its bad patents
22-Mar-2017 Tech Dirt
Just the fact that the Canadian government had to go through this massive and expensive process for many years just for rejecting two bad patents should show why ISDS provisions are such a problem.
Canada scores ISDS victory over Eli Lilly
20-Mar-2017 Politico
Canada has prevailed over pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly in a long-running investor-state dispute the drug company filed under NAFTA’s investment chapter.
Sugar subsidies, America’s least efficient corporate welfare program
10-Mar-2017 Panam Post
As part of NAFTA, Mexico was granted special access to the U.S. market but more akin to the “imperial preference” that Great Britain once provided for members of the British Empire.
Nafta talks likely won’t begin until later this year, Ross says
8-Mar-2017 Bloomberg
The U.S. government probably won’t begin “real” negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement until later this year (2017).
A new NAFTA, but not necessarily a better one
3-Mar-2017 Open Canada
NAFTA has its fair share of critics who want to see it updated. But if Trump has his way, a re-negotiated agreement may prove disappointing.
Chemical industry outlines priorities for new NAFTA
1-Mar-2017 Politico
Any renegotiation of NAFTA should include streamlined customs procedures and greater regulatory cooperation among other priorities, say the leading chemical industry associations.
TransCanada’s $15 billion U.S. Keystone XL NAFTA suit suspended
28-Feb-2017 Reuters
TransCanada Corp has suspended a $15 billion NAFTA suit filed against the United States over the Keystone XL pipeline after U.S. President approved the project.
It’s time to scrap NAFTA, not ‘tweak’ it
28-Feb-2017 Foreign Policy In Focus
Donald Trump seems to think Mexicans made out like bandits from NAFTA. In reality, workers in all three NAFTA countries have suffered.
Investor-state dispute settlements: great for business, risky for the environment
23-Feb-2017 Ecojustice
What makes ISDS divisive is it exposes governments to potentially expensive private arbitration by foreign corporations who feel that environmental protection measures impede their business.
Canada stresses talks on NAFTA will involve all three members
21-Feb-2017 Reuters
Any talks to renew the North American Free Trade Agreement would involve all three member nations, a top Canadian official said
No: No wall could hurt Mexico as much as NAFTA has
16-Feb-2017 Sacramento Bee
NAFTA marked a continuation of policies that began in the 1980s under pressure from Washington and the International Monetary Fund.
Trump expects only ’tweaking’ of trade relationship with Canada
14-Feb-2017 Reuters
President Donald Trump said the United States would be "tweaking" its trade relationship with Canada.
Beef industry talks possible trade deals
13-Feb-2017 Ag Web
The U.S. beef herd is expanding and the industry wants export market access to grow as well.
Trump scraps The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for bilateral “free trade”
8-Feb-2017 Global Research
Trump wants even stronger, pro-U.S. business free trade deals to the benefit of U.S. multinational corporations and at the expense of the U.S. trading partners.
Trump has one big idea to fix America’s trade deals. It’s not very good.
8-Feb-2017 Slate
If governments turn out to be absolutely desperate to sign FTAs with the US they won’t have much choice but to deal with an administration whose motto is “America first”, which may mean learning to love all our genetically modified produce, among other concessions.
Cargill chief: NAFTA in “good place”
3-Feb-2017 SE Agnet
Cargill does not want a lot to change in the North American free trade deal
Mexicans left behind by NAFTA see opportunity in Trump
3-Feb-2017 Al Jazeera
NAFTA led to upheaval in Mexican countryside as cheap grains produced by highly subsidised US farms flooded markets.
Unifor president: NAFTA, other free trade deals need renegotiating
31-Jan-2017 RCI
NAFTA and other free trade deals including CETA have been badly negotiated by Canada, and have hurt the economy.
Farm & Food groups call for new way on NAFTA
28-Jan-2017 IATP
U.S.-Mexico relations should be based on fair trade, not xenophobia. Farm and food groups call for prioritizing fair and sustainable rural economies.
Trump aide reassures Canada on trade talks, isolating Mexico
24-Jan-2017 Bloomberg
The U.S. and Canada are signaling most of the pain from reworking Nafta will hit Mexico