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Canada-US trade
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Take my NAFTA, please: As Pelosi riffs, questions abound on fate of USMCA
Washington, DC — North of the border, Canada’s hard-won free-trade deal with the United States and Mexico is considered a matter of existential importance, heavy with implications for workers, businesses and governments of all political stripes. For Nancy Pelosi, it’s…
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Regulators, exporters talk harmonizing standards in Canada, U.S.
Washington, DC — Life-changing technology breakthroughs could be strangled by red tape at the Canada-U.S. border unless the two countries give innovators one shared set of rules to follow, Treasury Board President Scott Brison said in Washington Tuesday. Brison joined…
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‘Logic will prevail’ with politicians ratifying USMCA, says BRP chief executive
Toronto, ON — U.S. politicians will ratify the revised North American Free Trade Agreement despite threats that the continent could be left without any deal after President Donald Trump says he will withdraw from the existing trade pact, the head…
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Out with the old: Trump to kill old NAFTA to push Congress to approve USMCA
Washington, DC — The original NAFTA deal has landed back atop Donald Trump’s hit list, with the U.S. president again declaring he intends to terminate the 24-year-old trade pact — a move that appears designed to pressure lawmakers on Capitol…
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Canada signs onto new NAFTA despite the persistence of steel and aluminum tariffs
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Signing on to a revamped NAFTA alleviates the serious economic uncertainty that lingered throughout the negotiating process, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday while flanked by U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena…
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Trump’s new NAFTA faces skeptics in now Democrat led House
Washington, DC — President Donald Trump spent more than a year browbeating the leaders of Canada and Mexico into agreeing to a rewrite of North American trade rules. And on Friday, leaders of those two nations are set to sign…
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Morneau hopes new NAFTA deal signed next week, stresses tariff fight is separate
Ottawa, ON — Canada could sign a new North American free-trade deal even with stinging U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods still in force, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday, with just over a week to go before a key deadline…
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Group of U.S. senators urge Trump to expedite congressional vote on USMCA
Washington, DC — A group of U.S. senators is pushing President Donald Trump to fast-track the final text of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement so Congress can vote on it before the end of the year — a notion that stretches…
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Experts warn of economic uncertainty until USMCA ratified; Dems cast doubts
Washington, DC — Economic uncertainty will linger across North America unless and until a divided Congress approves the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, trade lawyers from both countries predicted Wednesday as newly emboldened Democrats on Capitol Hill vowed not to rubber-stamp the deal.…
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Bizarro world: Midterms offer little clarity on fate of USMCA, tariff dispute
Washington, DC — If the midterm elections were supposed to wipe clear the uncertainty of tariffs, trade and other smudges on the window into Canada-U.S. affairs, well, have a look at the bizarro world of politics in the United States…
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Nevada and Alberta government and business leaders forge trade links
Edmonton, AB — Delegates from Nevada met with their Alberta counterparts for a day long discussion on Nevada/Alberta trade opportunities, at the Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel on Friday. The Nevada trade delegation was invited to Edmonton by Flair Airlines, who…
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US midterm results could delay new trade deal into 2020, watchers warn
Ottawa, ON — Canadians are inspecting the new U.S. political landscape following midterm election results that many believe have added fresh trade-related uncertainty. The Democrats’ majority victory in the House of Representatives could mean the ratification of the recently struck…