As the mandatory, six-year review of the USMCA approaches, significant changes to the agreement are needed so that it benefits working families and contributes to the development of a resilient and fair economy in the United States and across North America. If these needed changes cannot be secured, the United States should not only refuse to extend the agreement’s term beyond its current 2036 expiration, but should instead withdraw from the USMCA altogether.
At the time of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s (USMCA’s) establishment, President Trump told the nation that the pact would bring “jobs pouring into the United States,” be “an especially great victory for our farmers,” and provide other concrete benefits to the American people. Instead, the U.S. trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has skyrocketed under the USMCA; corporations continue to offshore good-paying American jobs to Mexico to take advantage of ongoing labor rights violations, lax pollution controls and abysmally-low wages; and the pact continues to restrict public interest policy making in all three countries.
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