A free-trade partner that pays more than countries with no free-trade deal at all There is a peculiar arithmetic at the heart of North American trade in the summer of 2026, and it has Mexican negotiators quietly furious. Mexico is the United States’ closest manufacturing partner, the largest single source of imported cars on American…

On June 10, President Trump told reporters he is “not looking to renew” the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, three weeks before the pending July 1 review deadline. The statement dominated headlines at this week’s Canada-U.S summit in Toronto, where Prime Minister Carney and U.S. Ambassador Hoekstra were both pressed on what comes next. But Trump’s comments don’t…
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