Trump: Kommer snart säga upp Nafta formellt
USA:s president Donald Trump säger att han snart kommer att meddela kongressen att han formellt tänker dra sig ur frihandelsavtalet Nafta. Därigenom börjar en tidsfrist på sex månader löpa innan avtalet upphör och kan ersättas med det nya avtal som framförhandlats mellan USA, Kanada och Mexiko.
Under tidsfristen kommer kongressen att få rösta för att godkänna det nya avtalet, känt under förkortningen USMCA.
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Wikipedia (en)
The Agreement between the United States of America, the United Mexican States, and Canada is a signed but not ratified free trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States. It is is referred to differently in each signatory: in the United States it is called the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA); in Canada, it is called the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) in English or Accord Canada–États-Unis–Mexique (ACEUM) in French; and in Mexico, it is called the Tratado entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá (T-MEC). The agreement is also referred to as "NAFTA 2.0", or New NAFTA in order to distinguish it from its predecessor, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
It is the result of the 2017–2018 renegotiation of NAFTA by its member states, which informally agreed to the terms on September 30, 2018, and formally on October 1. The USMCA was signed by United States President Donald Trump, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 30, 2018, as a side event of the 2018 G20 Summit in Buenos Aires. Each country's legislature still must ratify the agreement.
Compared to NAFTA, the agreement gives the U.S. more access to Canada's $19 billion dairy market, incentivizes more domestic production of cars and trucks, increases environmental and labor regulations, and introduces updated intellectual property protections.
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