Mexico first to ratify USMCA trade deal, Trump presses U.S. Congress to do same

[TomSea]

June 19, 2019 / 3:00 PM / a day ago
Mexico first to ratify USMCA trade deal, Trump presses U.S. Congress to do same
Miguel Angel Lopez, Dave Graham

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Wednesday became the first country to ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) agreed late last year to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) at the behest of U.S. President Donald Trump.

By a vote of 114 in favor to 4 against, Mexico’s Senate backed the deal tortuously negotiated between 2017 and 2018 after Trump repeatedly threatened to withdraw from NAFTA if he could not get a better trade agreement for the United States.

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador had already anticipated ratification this week in the Senate, where his leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and its allies have a comfortable majority in the 128-member chamber.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trade-mexico-usmca-idUSKCN1TK2U3?utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_content=5d0aacfdb1a3150001dd9c57&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

Trump praised Mexico over this. I don't think this story was posted yet.

[truth_seeker]

Earlier on Fox Bus radio, Canada's Treaudeau was talking about the facts of the US/Canada/Mexico agreement.

Presumably a better agreement has been completed, to replace NAFTA.

Apparently Canada has drug problems with China.