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NAFTA | USMCA

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

United States seeks Mexico’s review of alleged denial of workers’ rights at Aludyne Automotive Mexico City, S.A. de C.V.
4-Apr-2025 Office of the USTR
The US has invoked the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to review whether workers at Aludyne Automotive Mexico City are being denied the right to freedom of association and collective bargaining.
Mexico’s trade negotiator says USMCA discussions may be sped up
4-Apr-2025 Financial Post
Discussions over the future of the North American free trade pact could be pushed earlier than originally planned, said one of Mexico’s top trade negotiators.
Making NAFTA worse: Giveaways for Big Tech in the USMCA
21-Mar-2025 Public Citizen
USMCA provisions are straight out of Big Tech’s digital trade wishlist, which seeks to pre-empt the ability of governments to introduce regulations that could affect their bottom lines or hold them accountable.
We need a trade deal that works for people and the planet
19-Mar-2025 Sierra Club
A federal review of the USMCA is approaching later this year. This is a critical opportunity to demand a trade deal that prioritizes people, the environment, public health, worker rights, and innovative manufacturing
Trump grants one-month tariff reprieve to some goods from Mexico, Canada
7-Mar-2025 The Washington Post
President Donald Trump postponed for another month imposing tariffs on certain Mexican and Canadian products that comply with the North American free-trade treaty.
Trump administration announces one-month tariff exemption on cars coming through USMCA
6-Mar-2025 The Korea Times
US President Donald Trump has decided to give a one-month tariff exemption on vehicles coming into the United States through a trade agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada.
Trump officials eye tariff relief for USMCA-compliant products, Lutnick says
5-Mar-2025 Reuters
Trump’s administration is considering granting relief from his 25% tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports to products that comply with the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Canada and Mexico gambled on a free trade future. The bet is turning sour.
4-Mar-2025 Mint
Few countries have bet as heavily on free trade as Mexico and Canada. Now that President Trump says 25% tariffs will hit both countries, their economies are facing a stress test that rivals the global financial crisis and the pandemic.
I was tear-gassed protesting free trade. Can I now say, “I told you so”?
4-Mar-2025 rabble.ca
A quarter century ago, I was tear-gassed protesting free trade. Now that Trump’s tariffs may signal the beginning of the end of globalization, do I get to say, “I told you so?”
Mexico’s path to food sovereignty undercut by USMCA decision
28-Feb-2025 IATP
The dispute panel’s ruling against Mexico in a challenge brought by the US, and Mexico’s eventual agreement to withdraw the provisions on corn, points to the limitations of existing trade rules, which are heavily influenced by industrial agriculture and biotechnology interests.
On digital trade: Will Trump 2.0 continue to break from neoliberalism?
28-Feb-2025 Centre for International Governance Innovation
Time will tell how Trump’s digital trade agenda will evolve.
Re-imagining trade for people and the planet
24-Feb-2025 rabble.ca
Progressive new trade policies and agreements driven by global environmental objectives, as well as decades-old attempts through the United Nations General Assembly to reshape the global trade system and decolonize it, offer some direction.
Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements: Economists
21-Feb-2025 The Maple
Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement? If we could make a compelling economic and policy case to renationalize a key industry, we should just do it and we should stop worrying about whether it’s allowed in the free trade agreement or not.
Mexico’s CUSMA loss is a warning to New Zealand
20-Feb-2025 CCPA
Genetically modified corn dispute from the US and Canada exposes lack of protection for Indigenous rights in recent trade deals.
American workers vs. surveillance capitalism: the future of digital trade policy
19-Feb-2025 Harvard Kennedy School
The USTR’s review of the USMCA should reveal that its digital trade chapter, built on the Obama-era neoliberal TPP rules, seeks to consolidate tech power, monopolize markets, undermine workers’ rights, and disregard AI transparency and accountability.
Mexico repeals GMO corn ban following USMCA arbitration ruling
17-Feb-2025 AgNet
The Mexican government officially repealed its ban on genetically modified corn imports from the United States, following an arbitration ruling under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Why CUSMA isn’t going to stop US tariffs if Trump wants them to happen
3-Feb-2025 CBC
Economics and trade law experts say the US could, under CUSMA, cite national security as a rationale for its actions and plow ahead with tariffs knowing Canada can’t prevent that from happening.
Senators demand US trade chief Tai halt late talks on investor protections
16-Jan-2025 Reuters
A bipartisan group of US senators called on US Trade Representative to stop negotiations with Mexico, Canada and Colombia that they say would weaken investor protections in some US free trade deals during the Biden administration’s final days.
United States prevails in USMCA dispute on biotech corn
24-Dec-2024 USTR
The United States has prevailed in its dispute under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement challenging certain Mexican biotechnology measures concerning genetically engineered corn.
United States requests USMCA rapid response labor mechanism dispute settlement panel at Bader de Mexico facility
19-Dec-2024 USTR
United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced that the United States has, for a fifth time, requested a Rapid Response Labor Mechanism panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.