Effective U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada are essential to a healthy U.S. economy. Closing or restricting them would have grave economic consequences for the United States.
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While we wait on USMCA ratification, trilateral trade between NAFTA members keeps growing. AS/COA Online takes a look, with a spotlight on U.S.-Mexico trade.
This spring's events touch Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Venezuela, exploring early music to big band to chamber opera.
"If you question the USMCA, then investors begin to get leery of Mexico," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth on Bloomberg Markets, regarding the recently signed USMCA.
"Even under normal circumstances, ratification of trade agreements is difficult. But these are surely not normal circumstances," says AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth in Metro.
Council of the Americas applauds efforts by the three countries to conclude negotiations of a trilateral agreement.
We look at trade among the Pacific Rim countries, which now make up the world’s third-largest trade bloc.