Canada NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 Canada Sun, 23 May 2021 06:37:14 +0000 https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Bill Chappell Updated at 8:25 a.m. ET President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement — or USMCA — in Buenos Aires Friday, using the backdrop of the G-20 Summit to resolve a trade dispute between America and its closest neighbors. "Let's go," all three leaders said as they sat alongside each other to sign multiple copies of the deal. They then shuffled binders around in front of them, to finalize the deal that remakes one of the world's largest free trade zones. When the signing was over, they paused for a photo-op. "Might as well hold that up," Trump said, displaying the fresh signatures as the three leaders sat together. Despite that and other prodding, Trudeau opted not to follow his peers in holding up his binder to celebrate — a sign, perhaps, of the lingering effects of the contentious process that was triggered when Trump imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada earlier this year, which remain in place. https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/usmca-trump-signs-new-trade-agreement-mexico-and-canada-replace-nafta 631 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:27:25 +0000 USMCA: Trump Signs New Trade Agreement With Mexico And Canada To Replace NAFTA Esther Honig After nearly a century of prohibition, Canada became the first major economy this week to legalize recreational marijuana (though Uruguay was the first in 2013), and it has U.S. companies lining up. https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/canada-s-legal-marijuana-attracts-some-us-cannabis-companies 608 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:47:03 +0000 Canada’s Legal Marijuana Attracts Some U.S. Cannabis Companies Updated at 3:45 p.m. ET The U.S. and Canada reached a deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed a quarter-century ago, with a new pact that the Trump administration says is easier to enforce. In remarks in the Rose Garden formally announcing the agreement, President Trump called it "the most important trade deal we've ever made by far." Ahead of a midnight deadline set by the White House, Trump approved changes that essentially revamp the 1993 NAFTA deal, bringing Canada on board after Mexico had already agreed in August. In addition, the two countries agreed to shield Canada from any future automobile tariffs imposed by the U.S. The agreement, called the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, gives U.S. dairy farmers greater access to the Canadian market. It also preserves a dispute resolution system that Canada likes but which the Trump administration had hoped to phase out. Trump is expected to sign the deal, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/trump-says-new-trade-agreement-replace-nafta-campaign-promise-kept 598 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Mon, 01 Oct 2018 19:55:51 +0000 Trump Says New Trade Agreement To Replace NAFTA Is A Campaign Promise Kept Erica Hunzinger The United States and Mexico announced this week there’s a tentative deal in their renegotiation of the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. A new book, "Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies and the Destruction of Mexico," looks at the connections between the agricultural and food trade policies that the policy has brought about. https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/author-argues-nafta-boosted-food-corporations-harmed-mexicans-health 578 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Tue, 28 Aug 2018 14:24:03 +0000 Author Argues NAFTA Boosted Food Corporations, Harmed Mexicans' Health John Ydstie Updated at 5:40 p.m. ET The United States and Mexico have reached an "understanding" on several critical trade issues following bilateral talks to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. They will now likely re-engage with Canada to reach a final deal on NAFTA, a primary goal of the Trump administration. Speaking at the White House on Monday, President Trump said he wanted to change the NAFTA name to the U.S. Mexico Free Trade Agreement. He also reframed the negotiations as two bilateral trade deals. "We've made a deal with Mexico, and we'll get started with Canada immediately," Trump said. He also said he would "be terminating the existing [NAFTA] deal very soon" because NAFTA has "a lot of bad connotations" and has been a "bad deal" for the United States. The breakthrough between the U.S. and Mexico involved an agreement on the amount of North American content a vehicle must have in order to pass duty-free across borders. The percentage was moved up to 75 percent from https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/us-and-mexico-reach-trade-deal-trump-wants-drop-nafta-name 580 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:03:17 +0000 U.S. And Mexico Reach Trade Deal; Trump Wants To Drop NAFTA Name Esther Honig Back in 2012, one of the major employers in Montrose, Colorado, a sawmill, was in receivership and on the brink of collapse. At the time, local media reported that the cost of logging timber had become prohibitively expensive, and the log yard was nearly empty. These days, logs are stacked high next to a humming mill. Production is up 20 percent from even just 2016. https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/us-lumber-benefiting-trade-dispute-trump-didn-t-start 576 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Fri, 24 Aug 2018 15:45:56 +0000 U.S. Lumber Benefiting From A Trade Dispute That Trump Didn’t Start