Tag: North American Trade

  • Trailer Duties

    Commerce slaps preliminary antidumping duties on van-type trailers from Canada and Mexico, extending a North American trade fight that has already hit Chinese producers with rates above 130 percent WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2026 The U.S. Department of Commerce has imposed preliminary antidumping duties on van-type trailers and their subassemblies imported from Canada and Mexico, publishing…

  • CUSMA Redux

    With the continental pact unrenewed and rolling annual reviews now the rule, Washington opens a third bilateral round with Mexico while Ottawa waits for a seat at the table OTTAWA, July 18, 2026. The trilateral trade agreement that has governed the North American economy since 2020 has entered an uncertain new chapter, and Canada is…

  • Trump Says U.S. Won’t Renew USMCA, Signaling a Future of Yearly Reviews

    What an open-ended joint review means for North American supply chains – and what importers should be doing now On June 10, 2026, speaking from the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said the United States is “not looking to renew” the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trilateral pact that replaced NAFTA in 2020 and that…

  • Mexico’s Gripe With the U.S. Trade Pact: Japan Has the Better Deal

    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…