Donald Trump promulgated, Wednesday, January 29, the new trilateral trade agreement negotiated for many months with Mexico and Canada, but also the Democratic opposition. It is the last act in a very long process which started from the arrival of the republican billionaire in the White House in January 2017, until the final adoption by the American Congress in mid-January of the State Agreement – United Mexico Canada (AEUMC).
"Today we are finally putting an end to the Alena's nightmare", launched the President of the United States at a signing ceremony at the White House, in reference to the previous agreement which linked the three countries since 1994 but which it strongly criticized, estimating that it had cost too many jobs to the American economy. However, he promised a "Glorious future" to American industry through the EUMC.
Trudeau launched ratification
The new text is a grooming of the 1994 Alena. It provides, for example, for innovations in the environmental field, but must above all reduce the differences in treatment between workers in the three countries to avoid massive relocations.
The amended WUSC has already been ratified on December 10 by Mexico, and is expected to be ratified by Canada without much difficulty in the coming weeks. Justin Trudeau’s government launched parliamentary ratification on Monday, calling on the opposition to quickly approve it.
The majority Democratic House of Representatives in the United States had agreed to endorse it in December after long discussions with the Trump administration and at the cost of numerous amendments to the original text released in late 2018. The Senate followed suit not on January 16, and the president's signature was just a formality.
