30 June 2020

The Brave New World Keeps Spinning Around: North America

USMCA! USMCA! USMCA! USMACA! USMCA! USMACA! -----the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
"After 13 months of diplomatic negotiations, plus further political wrangling within Washington, a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA takes effect on Wednesday with modest changes in some areas, significant additions in others. . ." and that new name"
Looks like E-Commerce and Digital Trade have changed the entire world everywhere. It's not just Politics like this point-of-view from Sarah Babbage writing in Bloomberg Politics
So has the 2020 COVID-19 PANDEMIC in ways we don't know about in these uncertain times - impacts yet to see.
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HALF-HEMISPHERE THINKING
IN A GLOBAL NETWORK
Here's some quick information from Bloomberg:
Why did Nafta have to be renegotiated?
relates to So Long, Nafta; Hello, USMCA. What You Need to Know: QuickTake
POLITICS
So Long, Nafta; Hello, USMCA. What You Need to Know: QuickTake
By Sarah Babbage
As a candidate in 2016, President Donald Trump pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement and to terminate it “if we don’t get the deal we want.” After 13 months of diplomatic negotiations, plus further political wrangling within Washington, a replacement takes effect on Wednesday with modest changes in some areas, significant additions in others and a new name, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
June 30, 2020

The Reference Shelf

— With assistance by Erik Wasson
 

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