Tag: North American Free Trade Agreement

• Friday, June 21st 2019 - 12:04 UTC

  Trump and Trudeau meet to mend fences and push for legislative approval of trade deal

  

  President Donald Trump-hosted his Canadian counterpart Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to mend fences after last year's diplomatic meltdown and to push the still un-ratified North American free trade deal.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  Government shutdown persists as Trump and Democrats clash over US/Mexican border wall funding

  

  United States president Donald Trump has demanded funding for his long-promised US-Mexico border wall to halt “a growing humanitarian and security crisis”. But in his first TV address to the nation from the Oval Office, Mr Trump did not declare a national emergency to bypass Congress and build the barrier.

• Tuesday, November 27th 2018 - 08:51 UTC

  Trump downplays a trade deal with China ahead of Saturday's meeting with Xi in Buenos Aires

  

  United States president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping will meet on Saturday in Argentina on the sidelines of a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, a U.S. media outlet reported on Monday. The two leaders will meet a day after the United States, Mexico and Canada sign a new trilateral trade agreement, the online edition of Inside U.S. Trade said.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:57 UTC

  Trump hails the launching of the United States/Mexico/Canada trade agreement

  

  After 14 months of talks between the United States and its closest allies, President Donald Trump celebrated the United States Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, a new trade agreement that is poised to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:42 UTC

  US and Canada reach a NAFTA framework pudate; “we have a trilateral deal”, sayd Mexican sources

  

  The US dollar slipped against the Canadian dollar on Monday as the United States and Canada reached a framework deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement. The deal reached involves offering more dairy access to U.S. farmers as well as Canada agreeing to a side-letter arrangement effectively capping automobile exports to the United States.