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Dashboard Insights
Alternative Staging Regime for Passenger Vehicles and Light Trucks Under the USMCA
By Marcos Carrasco Menchaca, Alejandro Nemo Gomez Strozzi, Javier Valenzuela Padilla
We know that, as the internal ratification procedures for the United States of America–Mexico–Canada Agreement (“USCMA”) have concluded, the trade agreement will enter into force on July 1, 2020. It…
International Trade Law
USMCA (NEW NAFTA) TO TAKE EFFECT JULY 1, 2020
By John Brew, David Stepp, Maria Vanikiotis
The Office of the United States Trade Representative has notified the United States Congress that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) will enter into force on July 1, 2020. Following the…
SmarTrade
Vehicle Producer “Alternative Staging Regime” Petitions for Compliance with USMCA Rules of Origin Due July 1
By Thompson Hine International Trade
In an April 21, 2020, Federal Register notice, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) announced procedures for North American producers of passenger vehicles or light trucks to submit petitions requesting…
Trade and Manufacturing Monitor
CBP Posts Interim Instructions for USMCA Implementation
On Monday, April 20, 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued interim instructions for implementation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).* The instructions provide guidance regarding preferential tariff claims under…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Delay the USMCA? Business Leaders Call for Postponing Implementation of the ‘New NAFTA’
The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on November 30, 2018. The USMCA…
International Trade Insights
Canada Approves U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Implementation May Be Slowed By COVID-19
By Robert Stang, Julia Banegas, Cortney Morgan
On March 13, 2020, the Canadian Parliament approved the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (the “USMCA” in the United States or “CUSMA” in Canada), with Royal Assent, Canada’s equivalent to a U.S. presidential…
Dashboard Insights
2020 International Trade and Trends in Mexico Survey
By LexBlog
In the three years it took for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) to come to fruition, there was much uncertainty surrounding trade relations with Mexico, yet U.S. business executives’ bullishness…
The Employer Report
USMCA Labor Provisions Have Potential Commercial Impact
What has changed On December 10, 2019, the United States, Canada and Mexico reached an agreement on a revised United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ("USMCA"), which establishes a rapid response labor mechanism…
Michael Geist
Broadcast Panel Commissioned Report Found Canada Ranks First Among Peer Countries in Spending on TV Production, Domestic TV Production, and Employment Per Capita
The Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel report calls for a massive overhaul of Canadian communications law – leading to increased consumer costs, violations of net neutrality, news regulation, CRTC…
Michael Geist
The BTLR and USMCA, Part Two: Why the Broadcast Panel Recommendations Could Cost Canadians Millions in Retaliatory Tariffs
My review of the Broadcast and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel report (previous posts include an overview of concerns, news regulation, Guilbeault’s comments, net neutrality, discoverability claims, consumer costs, potential USMCA…