ISDS Case Map
NAFTA | USMCA
The oil business persuaded the White House to keep a number of features of the old NAFTA, including provisions that help protect US oil companies' investments abroad and allow for tax-free transport of raw and refined products across borders.
The digital trade chapter restricts data localization policies and bans restrictions on data transfers across borders.
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.
The reworked agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada neglects the demands of farm groups.
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.
The damages provisions in the new trade agreement are dangerous, and create a norm that is in conflict with national laws.
More outsourcing of pollution and jobs, handouts to corporate polluters, and climate denial
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).
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 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.
