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Canada’s Chief Trade Negotiator, Janice Charette, spoke Tuesday at the Future of Business Summit in Toronto, and commented on the state of the U.S., Mexico, Canada (CUSMA) trade talks with a mandatory joint review set for July 1. “Canada’s very pro-actively engaged here with the United States, with Mexico, making our way through, ready to...

U.S. President Donald Trump has cast doubt on the potential renewal of the longstanding free trade pact between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico (CUSMA). The deal – known as USMCA to Americans – is set to expire in July, with a mandatory review set to begin mid-January. During a visit to a Ford manufacturing plant...

With a joint review required by July 1, U.S. President Donald Trump answered a question about the United States-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement in the White House on Wednesday, claiming he will either “let it expire” or “maybe work out another deal with Mexico and Canada,” claiming that the bordering countries have “taken advantage” of the...

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday she and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney have spoken over the phone and discussed how to respond to looming U.S. tariffs. Both leaders received letters from U.S. President Donald Trump warning of new import duties, including 30 per cent for Mexico and 35 per cent for Canada. Sheinbaum said...

U.S. President Donald Trump seemed to take a veiled jab at former Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, calling her a “terrible person” and saying Freeland “tried to take advantage” of the USMCA talks. Trump made the remarks while meeting Prime Minister Mark Carney in the Oval Office on Tuesday. Freeland currently serves on Carney’s cabinet...

As uncertainty continues about the tariffs that US President Donald Trump has slapped on Canadian goods, today a White House announcement added to the confusion with some tariffs being removed – at least for a while. Nathaniel Dove explains.

During a White House press briefing on Wednesday, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that any automobiles coming through the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) will be exempt of tariffs, but just for a month.

Speaking to reporters in Washington Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy openly wondered whether or not a vote on USMCA approval in the House of Representatives was directly tied to a vote on impeachment.

Chris Sands, Director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., tells Mercedes Stephenson he is optimistic the new trade deal will be ratified before the end of the year, even though Congress is consumed with the debate of possible impeachment hearings.

Speaking in Charlottesville on Saturday, U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence touted the benefits of the USMCA, claiming President Donald Trump “drove a hard” bargain in negotiating with Canada and Mexico and hammered the Democrats for delaying a vote on the trade deal.

Speaking in Ottawa Thursday, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland personally thanked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his “hard work” on USMCA talks, detained Canadians in China, and more.

U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the USMCA on Friday and said he’d like to get the deal done as soon as possible to avoid politicizing it.

Workers at General Motors in Oshawa, along with local businesses that count on a healthy assembly plant, express a collective sigh of relief upon news of a new NAFTA agreement. U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened tariffs in cars assembled in Canada.

Canadian shoppers will be able to purchase goods from the United States with lower taxes and duties, according to details in the new trade agreement between Canada and the United States. Sean O’Shea reports.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy declined to answer a question on how Mexico would pay for Donald Trump’s border wall through the USMCA, instead claiming that one-third of women in the migrant caravan have been raped or “violently treated.”

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday claimed to have “ended the NAFTA nightmare” after formally signing the new US-Mexico-Canada agreement into law.

On Wednesday in front of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. President Donald Trump formally signed into law the new United States – Mexico – Canada trade agreement.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Monday that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau would not be attending talks in Washington D.C. this week to mark the start of the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) trade deal, which came into effect on July 1. The Mexican president also said he would be getting tested for...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that the USMCA was a “tough” deal and would protect the country and its products, while saying the same about the deal with China, which would be finalized in the coming weeks.

Now that the USMCA has been drafted, here are some numbers and dates to keep in mind – like the amount of time Canada needs to wait , to table a bill implementing the deal, after it presents the text to Parliament.