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Bold farm plans in Mexico offer a ray of hope in 2019
17-Jan-2019 IATP
Mexican farmers are on the verge of bold, new plans to completely transform their food and farm system. Will NAFTA 2.0 challenge them?
Pacific Rim trade deal enters into force with steep tariff cuts for six nations including Singapore, Australia, Japan
7-Jan-2019 The Straits Times
Pacific trade pact takes off with tariff cut in six nations that ratified the pact
Liberals should consistently fight trade deals that let corporations sue Canada
21-Oct-2018 Huffington Post
Investor-state dispute settlement was tempered in the USMCA, but the government needs to justify why it persists asking for it in other agreements.
Trade pact clause seen deterring China trade deal with Canada, Mexico
3-Oct-2018 Reuters
China’s hopes of negotiating a free trade pact with Canada or Mexico were dealt a sharp setback by a provision deep in the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that aims to forbid such deals with “non-market” countries.
’This is life or death for us’: Mexico’s farm movement rejects new NAFTA agreement
3-Oct-2018 Common Dreams
Leaders of Mexico’s farm movement strongly condemned the new NAFTA, calling on the new president they supported in recent elections to get involved and slow the race to the new agreement.
Canada, US have reached a NAFTA deal - now called the USMCA
1-Oct-2018 CBC
Canada and the U.S. have announced a tentative new trilateral trade deal with Mexico that includes some key concessions on issues of import to both countries — and also a reworked name: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
How Trump split Mexico and Canada in NAFTA talks
27-Sep-2018 Reuters
The Mexican president-elect agreed to the US president’s request for a bilateral agreement while Canadian officials believe Mexico gave up too much in the deal.
Mexico ready to proceed with bilateral US-trade deal; Canada may join: negotiator
27-Sep-2018 France 24
Mexico is prepared to advance a bilateral trade agreement with the United States that Canada could join within the next few weeks, a top Mexican NAFTA negotiator said.
Mexico prepared to do a trade deal without Canada, official tweets
14-Sep-2018 iPolitics
Mexico is prepared to move ahead with an updated version of the North American Free Trade Agreement that does not include Canada if Ottawa and Washington cannot resolve their differences.
Mexico adds rule of origin exception into Colombia FTA
11-Sep-2018 Just Style
Mexico has implemented a temporary exception to the rules of origin for textiles and apparel in its free trade agreement with Colombia.
Mexico wants steel dispute ended before new NAFTA signed: minister
7-Sep-2018 Reuters
Mexico wants to end to a tariff dispute over steel and aluminum with the United States prior to signing off on the reworked trade agreement.
US to move ahead with Mexico trade pact, keep talking to Canada
1-Sep-2018 Reuters
US-Canada trade talks ended with no deal to revamp NAFTA, and President Donald Trump notified Congress of his intent to sign a bilateral trade pact with Mexico.
Nafta betrayal points to bleak future for US-Canada relationship
30-Aug-2018 The Guardian
Canadians feel stabbed in the back by Mexico after it agreed a separate trade deal with Trump.
Trump’s trade deal with Mexico gives workers more rights than NAFTA. But there’s a catch
30-Aug-2018 Vox
When NAFTA was signed, it included labor protections for workers in all three countries. But labor complaints filed through the NAFTA labor dispute process have led nowhere.
Statement on NAFTA’s “Kafkaesque” turn
29-Aug-2018 Institute for Public Accuracy
Not only the negotiations have not been finalized, and without Canada, but the texts remain hidden from the public.
New NAFTA could include tough intellectual property laws that Canada fought against in TPP
29-Aug-2018 Global News
The new trade deal reached between the US and Mexico contains a myriad of rules and tariffs, and among them include tougher rules on copyright and intellectual property.
Spain sued over Popular resolution
28-Aug-2018 IFR
Mexican billionaire Antonio del Valle has launched actions against the Spanish government for its role in the process of putting Banco Popular into resolution and subsequent sale for €1 to Santander.
Biologic drugs would get 10 years of data protection under revised US-Mexico trade deal
28-Aug-2018 Pharmaceutical Commerce
The 10-year span is more than what had existed before but the biopharma industry has long argued for the same 12-year exclusivity that exists for biologics within the US market.
Trump announces ’incredible’ trade deal with Mexico
27-Aug-2018 BBC
The US and Mexico have reached common ground on key trade terms as pressure mounts to complete renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
US and Mexico put off NAFTA talks until Wednesday, autos eyed
22-Aug-2018 Reuters
Rules of origin for autos is really a “bilateral” issue between Mexico and the United States because Canada was relatively comfortable with the original US proposal.