If Approved, the New NAFTA Will End the Tyranny of Uncertainty
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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Revelations of AMLO-Trump’s Energy Renegotiations
By RICARDO CASTILLO At long last, we are beginning to hear some of the details of the United States Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations. According to Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the toughest clause was on energy, which was almost a deal-breaker. After heavy disputes, that bickering President Donald Trump finally softened his stance and spoke over the phone to AMLO.
Read moreUSMCA Is Uncharted Territory for Signature Nations
By RICARDO CASTILLO With Canada joining the newly drafted United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the stage is set for the leaders of the three nations to sign the accord, once their respective senates have revised it. It is generally thought that the signing ceremony, if there is one, will be circa Nov. 29 or 30, 2018. On Wednesday. Oct. 3, U.S. President Donald Trump
Read moreCanada and US Reach 11th Hour Deal on New NAFTA Accord
By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Canada, in an eleventh-hour bid to not be left out of a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), agreed late Sunday, Sept. 30, to join in a modernized trade agreement that would otherwise have become a bilateral accord between Mexico and the United States. The new agreement, which U.S. President Donald J. Trump
Read more9 Million Reasons for the US to Get a Trade Deal Done with Canada
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreCanada Is Left Out in the Cold, For Now
By RICARDO CASTILLO After the storm comes the calm. On Friday, Aug. 31, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer sent to Congress the done free-trade agreement between Mexico and the United States, leaving Canada out of the deal…for the moment. Talks between Lighthizer and Canadian NAFTA negotiator Chrystia Freeland at the end of the day did not go sour, but the two could
Read moreWaiting for Canada to Join the Pack
By RICARDO CASTILLO Hold the tequila! During the bilateral U.S.-Mexico celebration on Monday, Aug. 27, because the administrations of Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto had come to agreement, Mexico’s Peña Nieto invited The Don to a tequila toast that the U.S. president referred as to the new Mexico-U.S. Trade Agreement. In fact, Mexico’s still greenhorn diplomat, Foreign Relations Secretary Luis
Read moreTrump-EU Olive Branch Is Laudable First Step in Long Process
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreResetting US-Mexico Relations
By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
Read moreAn Unlikely Political Romance
By RICARDO CASTILLO The recent exchange of love letters between the unlikely pen pals of U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) only serves to confirm the statement I made in a recent column regarding the potential of similarities between the two: Birds of a feather flock together. AMLO sent a four-point letter to Trump via U.S.
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