North American Free Trade Agreement

“Strong digital trade outcomes in the EU, Japan, and UK negotiations will help counter growing restrictions on U.S. trade and set examples for other countries developing their own rules.”

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement could give U.S. poultry and egg producers less access to the Canadian market than Ottawa offered in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and in one case less than what the industry enjoys under NAFTA, Inside U.S. Trade has learned.

Key advisory committees to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative have revised their comments on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement following Canada's last-minute addition to the deal, praising the trilateral conclusion but singling out additional provisions they think warrant more consideration.

The Association for Accessible Medicines, AFL-CIO, AARP, Blue Cross Blue Shield and others say the deal could “exacerbate the problem of high prescription drug prices.”

Investment language in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement should not be used as the basis for provisions in future deals because it promises less protection than NAFTA, industry representatives said last week.

President Trump's nearly two years in office have upended free trade orthodoxy -- he has imposed tariffs, threatened to withdraw from various multilateral agreements, targeted trade relationships with longtime U.S. allies -- and thrust trade into the limelight on the midterm campaign trail.

An analysis commissioned by the Farm Foundation shows that an estimated $450 million in export gains for U.S. agriculture under the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement would be undermined by an $1.8 billion loss due to retaliatory tariffs from the two countries.

Technology policy experts and foreign officials are eyeing a U.S.-Japan Free Trade Agreement as a platform for digital trade rules that the rest of the world -- including China -- can follow.

U.S. and Mexican officials are eyeing late next week or the week after for the start of formal negotiations aimed at arriving at a Section 232 resolution that is palatable for both countries, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade.