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President Donald Trump said he would prefer not to renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (USMCA), arguing the United States would be better off without the trade pact. He said he would rather see the agreement terminated or allowed to expire, though he remains open to signing a new deal. Trump said his main reason for supporting...

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 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.

Ken Neumann, National Director for United Steelworkers of Canada tells Mercedes Stephenson the steel industry in Canada is hurting and the government needs to stand firm and not ratify a deal unless all tariffs are lifted.

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.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland remained optimistic following the signing of the USMCA, saying that the remaining issue overshadowing the deal are U.S.-imposed sanctions on Canadian steel.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland defended allowing the U.S. a 3.6 per cent share of the Canadian dairy industry as part of USMCA, amid concerns from farmers that the deal risks sovereignty.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in the signing of the USMCA, often referred to as the “new NAFTA” trade deal.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was silent on what he would do to protect the LGBTQ2+ provision in the USMCA when asked his thoughts on more than 40 Republican lawmakers calling on President Donald Trump to scrap the language in the trade deal supporting anti-discrimination policies, only saying there will always be people who like or...

Former U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman tells Mercedes Stephenson the verbal showdown between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. President Trump is not helpful getting a new NAFTA deal ratified before the end of summer.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland spoke to reporters on Thursday before a NATO meeting in D.C. about the U.S. imposed steel and aluminum tariffs against Canada, outlining the “illegal” and “unjustified” use of them as a barrier to completing the final steps to the USCMA deal, saying that the notion that Canada could pose a national...

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.