Tensions brim over CUSMA ahead of Biden’s Ottawa Visit
March 21, 2023
It’s been less than three years since the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced NAFTA as the law of the land in continental trade, and there are already hints of the existential anxiety that preceded it
Reuters
That’s because of the so-called “sunset provision,” a clause that reflects the lingering working-class distrust of globalization in the U.S. that helped Donald Trump get elected president back in 2016.
Article 34.7 of the agreement, the “review and term extension” clause, establishes a 16-year life cycle that requires all three countries to sit down every six years to ensure everyone is still satisfied.
“The U.S. remains unhappy with how Canada has allocated the quotas that give American dairy producers access to markets north of the border”
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