The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today welcomed an agreement-in-principle between Canada, the United States, and Mexico on a modernized trade agreement – the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)...
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Online shoppers in Canada get a break as U.S. retailers gain an edge in e-commerce under USMCA
October 20, 2018
Online shoppers will get price breaks on some products they buy from websites outside of Canada as a result of new e-commerce rules in the new proposed trade agreement...
For Canada’s economy, USMCA’s biggest benefit is end of uncertainty
October 20, 2018
As the dust begins to settle around the 11th-hour deal to pull North America’s continental trade alliance from the brink, the initial sense of relief will be tempered by the realization that Canada didn’t gain much from this new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade.
U.S., Canada, Mexico Reach Agreement to Update NAFTA
October 20, 2018
The U.S., Canada, and Mexico [have] announced an agreement to modernize the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is expected to be signed by Dec. 1, which could bring it up for congressional consideration in early 2019.
According to fact sheets from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the USMCA includes the following provisions.
End of transition period for export certificate HA1941
October 20, 2018
CFIA advises that on August 15, 2018, the transition period ended for the use of the previous version of the export certificate for cattle or bison to the United States. Only the new version of the certificate HA 1941 amended on June 27, 2018 will now be accepted. The USDA no longer requires bovine tuberculosis testing for cattle and bison from the Province of Manitoba.