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NAFTA | USMCA

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

Our changing food trade landscape
14-Jan-2019 Food Secure Canada
How do new technologies and renegotiated supply management rules affect our food system? And, how do we move past the black/white, good/bad binaries that so often frame debates about trade-related issues?
We can’t afford to let the new NAFTA drive up drug prices
14-Jan-2019 Chicago Tribune
NAFTA 2.0 would effectively tie the US Congress’ hands in the struggle against rising drug prices.
The IP implications of the USMCA: Who needs to do what
11-Jan-2019 Lexology
The USMCA most closely reflects US IP laws, subjecting the US to almost no revisions of its current domestic intellectual property laws.
An historic opportunity to transform trade when we stop NAFTA II
10-Jan-2019 Nation of Change
We can stop NAFTA II and replace corporate trade with a new model that raises working conditions and protects the environment.
A no-go for the US: What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership and why did it fail?
9-Jan-2019 IQS Directory
With the US as the centerpiece, the TPP would have given the country a more significant stake in Asia and the Pacific in much the same way as NAFTA did in America.
NAFTA renewed. Now what?
8-Jan-2019 Canadian Dimension
The outcome of the “Trump moment” is likely, for all its protectionist rhetoric, to end up further legitimating free trade.
There’s a hidden cost in Trump’s new trade agreement with Canada and Mexico
3-Jan-2019 Washington Post
Investment treaties with ISDS provisions make it hard to tax foreign firms and worsen human rights and labor practices.
The fossil fuel era is coming to an end, but the lawsuits are just beginning
19-Dec-2018 The Conversation
Westmoreland Coal is suing Canada because it did not receive a transition payment following Alberta’s coal phaseout plan. For the province, coal mining companies have no role to play in the energy transition.
The new NAFTA: A license to discriminate on the basis of sex
7-Dec-2018 NUPGE
Final text weakens and nullifies protections against work discrimination.
Canada looks to sidestep USMCA tripwire in trade talks with China
5-Dec-2018 iPolitics
Sector agreements signed between China and Canada could be rolled into a broader free trade agreement down the road — meaning that sectoral negotiations could lay the groundwork for comprehensive talks.
NAFTA 2.0: US-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Chapter 20: pharmaceutical related patent provisions
5-Dec-2018 Public Citizen
The Intellectual Property Chapter of the revised NAFTA, rebranded by the Trump Administration USMCA, includes provisions that threaten to undermine critical efforts to­wards affordable health care and medicine.
Trump to notify Congress in ’near future’ he will terminate NAFTA
2-Dec-2018 Reuters
US President said on he will give formal notice to the US Congress in the near future to terminate NAFTA, giving six months for lawmakers to approve the revamped trade deal.
Future of USMCA could turn on labour rights
1-Dec-2018 Behind the Numbers
It is unrealistic to expect even the most gold-plated labour provisions in FTAs to redress the vast power imbalance between workers and gigantic, internationally mobile corporations.
Thousands protest in Argentina during G20 Summit
1-Dec-2018 NBC
Members of 70 different groups joined forces to call attention to a range of concerns, from workers’ rights to climate change.
USMCA: Trump signs new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada to replace NAFTA
30-Nov-2018 NPR
The USMCA replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement, which had created a free trade zone between the three countries back in 1994. The deal will require ratification by all three countries’ legislatures before taking effect.
Trudeau says government ’still in discussions’ with US on USMCA signing
29-Nov-2018 CBC
With roughly three hours to go before boarding a flight to Argentina for a meeting of G20 leaders, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this afternoon Canada is "still in discussions with the Americans" about signing the revised NAFTA at the summit.
North American free trade deal to be signed in Argentina: Kudlow
28-Nov-2018 AFP
The new North American Free Trade Agreement, which binds Canada, the United States and Mexico, will be signed on the margins of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires
US coal firm launches NAFTA suit against Alberta over coal phase-out
20-Nov-2018 The Globe and Mail
A US coal miner is launching a NAFTA suit against Alberta over its policy to phase out coal in the electricity system by 2030.
Canada eyes sweeping free-trade deal with China but remains open to sector deals
13-Nov-2018 Financial Post
International Trade Minister Jim Carr says China’s interest in so many Canadian products could ultimately lead to a comprehensive trade deal.
Canada at odds with US changes to text of trade deal: source
9-Nov-2018 Reuters
Canada is pushing back against US attempts to change the text of their September trade pact and the issue may have to be referred to ministers to settle.