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# [NAFTA replaced by US, Canada & Mexico](https://go.adherent.com/news-resources/nafta-replaced-by-us-canada-mexico)

 Written by [Compliance & Risks](https://go.adherent.com/news-resources/author/compliance-risks) | Oct 2, 2018, 10:30:08 AM

Canada was back in a revamped North American free trade deal with the United States and Mexico late Sunday after weeks of bitter, high-pressure negotiations that brushed up against a midnight deadline.

In a joint statement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said the agreement “will strengthen the middle class, and create good, well-paying jobs and new opportunities for the nearly half billion people who call North America home.”

The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).Representatives for the government of Mexican president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador have called a press conference to discuss details of the trade deal on Monday. 

Sources:

[https://apnews.com/e88198165b80495fb8bae2ec2638430a](https://apnews.com/e88198165b80495fb8bae2ec2638430a)

[https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement](https://ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/united-states-mexico-canada-agreement)

 

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