USMCA News

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette said on Friday that Canada and Mexico could help export U.S. coal to Asia to get around the blocking of shipments by West Coast states concerned about the impact of the fuel on climate change.

By the time the Santiago River bursts over a waterfall on the outskirts of Guadalajara, in western Mexico, its stench seems to be everywhere. The river reeks of industrial waste and sewage and is possibly the most polluted river in North America.

Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Monday that a dispute with the United States over appointing U.S. labor attaches to Mexico does not put a new North American trade deal at risk.

Mexico's top trade negotiator plans to return to Washington on Sunday to express his outrage over language in the U.S. bill to implement the new North American trade agreement, potentially complicating the House's plans to pass the USMCA this week.

Washington - Things aren't going the greatest for President Donald Trump. He has Senate Finance Chairman Chuck Grassley warning that the USMCA is "dead" unless metal tariffs are removed, while Mexico is threatening retaliatory tariffs over border slowdowns.

Mexico is strenghtening a labor bill to meet requirements in the US Mexico Canada Agreement or USMCA the recently negotiated replacement for NAFTA.

Ottawa - Mexico has announced there won't be a new NAFTA deal with the United States unless President Donald Trump lifts the tariffs on steel and aluminum imposed on Mexico, tariffs it also imposed on Canada

More Canadians say they are disappointed with the USMCA, the US, Mexico, Canada Agreement that replaces NAFTA than pleased with the new agreement.

The new NAFTA deal is called the USMCA, the United States Mexico Canada free trade agreement. The deal contains several changes to the original NAFTA, of varying importance for the countries involved.

Ottawa - Canada's dairy farmers were quick to let their displeasure over the newly negotiated trade pact between Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, issuing a terse statement on the deal and its negative impact on the sector.