The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)
Author: Leslie Alan Glick
Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
Total Pages: 412
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre: Law
ISBN: 940351485X

On July 1, 2020, after much expectation and delay, the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)—a greatly revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) of 1994—came into effect. This timely book by the author of the preeminent guide to NAFTA and an active participant and private sector advocate in the USMCA negotiation and legislative process provides a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the new agreement, clearly describing what has changed from the earlier agreement and what is new. After a concise but expertly calibrated summary of NAFTA, the author proceeds systematically through a practical analysis of each USMCA provision, emphasizing such crucial new elements as the following: new rules on intellectual property rights; stricter rules of origin within the automotive industry; major reforms in Mexican labor laws and their enforceability; opening of Canada’s agricultural and dairy sector to more U.S. competition; entirely new chapter on digital trade; new dispute mechanisms; requirement of an increased minimum wage in auto plants; and a new chapter on environmental standards. Changes in such important aspects of trade as textiles and apparel, ownership of hydrocarbons, cross-border trade in services, and anticorruption measures are also fully described. The USMCA is a response to a United States initiative to renegotiate NAFTA. As a key regional trade agreement with vast global ramifications, familiarity with its content and rules is essential for all business, legal, policymaking, and academic parties concerned with international trade. This useful practical guide will be a welcome addition to private and corporate libraries, including corporate counsel, customs brokers, freight forwarders, logistics and import-export managers, government officials, and academics who need a thorough understanding of the new agreement.

An Introduction to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

An Introduction to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement
Author: David A. Gantz
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2020-08-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1839105321

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a modified and modernized version of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), will continue to govern most economic relationships in North America, including the more than $1.3 trillion in annual regional trade in goods and services, for the foreseeable future. This book provides a detailed analysis and critique of the provisions of the USMCA and the USMCA’s relation to NAFTA. It is designed to assist lawyers and non-lawyers alike, including law, economics and public policy scholars, business professionals and governmental officials who require an understanding of one of the world’s most economically and politically significant regional trade agreements.

Free Trade Negotiations Between Mexico, Canada and the United States

Free Trade Negotiations Between Mexico, Canada and the United States
Author: Terrence J. Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 14
Release: 1990
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 9780660139081

The United States and Mexico appear ready to negotiate a free trade deal. Canada has decided it wants to join them and broaden the discussion to include a North American free trade arrangement. Because Canada has recently negotiated its own deal with the U.S., much of the general background to such a trade arrangement is familiar to Canadians. Accordingly, this paper focuses on Mexico and free trade, providing background on the Mexican economy and highlighting, from a Canadian perspective, the issues raised by a possible Mexican-Canadian-U.S. free trade area.

Free Trade with Mexico

Free Trade with Mexico
Author: Ronald J. Wonnacott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 28
Release: 1991
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Freer trade in North America could take several forms: the creation of a trilateral free trade agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, through extending the existing Canada-U.S. agreement to Mexico; the negotiation of a pair of bilateral agreements, one between Canada and Mexico, and another between the United States and Mexico; and a bilateral agreement between the United States and Mexico without any liberalization of trade between Canada and Mexico. This document presents wide-ranging discussion by a group of Canadian, U.S., and Mexican observers of trade policy which suggest that experts are divided as to the relative merits of these arrangements for the countries involved and for the global trading system generally.