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The United States, Mexico and Canada will not immediately extend the countries' trilateral free trade agreement for another 16 years, as they continue to iron out potential changes to the pact.
Leaders from all three countries met virtually Wednesday to kick off the joint review process for the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a process that was required by the pact.
During the meeting, the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer informed his counterparts, Mexico Secretary of Commerce Marcelo Ebrard and Dominic LeBlanc, Canada’s minister of U.S. trade, that the U.S. would not extend the deal for another 16 years at this time, Ebrard said in Spanish in a video posted on X.
Greer issued a similar statement after the meeting, noting the U.S. declined to renew the agreement as is, but that it will remain in place until at least 2036 pending further negotiations. In a separate statement, LeBlanc emphasized Canada had advocated to renew the deal and that it remains fully in force and could be extended in the future.
