USMCA’s Future in Flux: Annual Reviews Threaten Economic Stability and Sovereignty

As the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) heads toward a mandatory review this July, Canada’s U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc has raised alarm bells about the Trump administration’s tactics that threaten to inject uncertainty into a deal designed to protect North American economic sovereignty.Is Washington Using Uncertainty as a Weapon?LeBlanc revealed to a Toronto business audience that the USMCA could face annual reviews if consensus isn’t reached this summer—an unorthodox approach that could stall investment decisions and fracture cross-border commerce. “If uncertainty is one of the objectives from one of our partners, you can imagine scenarios of how this might go,”...