Canada begins process to ratify USMCA trade deal

Published May 29, 2019 10:00pm ET



Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally introduced legislation to his country’s parliament Wednesday to ratify the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade.

Parliamentary action on the deal, which would replace the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement, had been held up for months by a dispute between Trudeau’s administration and the White House over steel and aluminum tariffs. Trudeau urged Canadian lawmakers to quickly wrap the deal up now that the dispute had been resolved.

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