The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) faces its first mandatory six-year review by July 1, with the U.S. seeking to address outstanding trade issues with Canada and Mexico. While Mexico has engaged pragmatically, Canada has refused to come to the negotiating table, jeopardizing the agreement's progress and the "huge victory" it represented for American families, farmers, manufacturers, and small businesses.
Key U.S. concerns include Canada's manipulation of tariff rate quotas exclusively for U.S. dairy producers, prohibitions on bulk fruit and vegetable imports of certain package sizes without ministerial exemption, restrictions on U.S. seed exports, new unfair requirements from the Online Streaming Act on U.S. streaming services, and unacceptable restrictions on access for turkey farmers. U.S. Trade Representative Jaimeson Greer highlighted Canada's economic retaliation, noting that nearly every Canadian province except Alberta and Saskatchewan prohibited the sale and import of American beer, wine, and spirits, placing Canada in the company of the People's Republic of China. Representative Claudia Tenney urges Canada to drop retaliatory actions and engage seriously on these trade issues to build a stronger, more prosperous U.S.-Canada partnership.
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