House Democrats’ ‘report card’ gives poor grades for USMCA implementation

The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s enforcement tools have yet to be used and the execution of labor obligations is on the “wrong track,” House Ways & Means Committee Democrats said this week in an assessment of the deal’s implementation to date. In a USMCA “report card ” released on Monday, the panel’s Democrats point to a “reactive” enforcement approach, forced-labor concerns and the “slow disbursement of funds designated to promote labor reforms and worker rights in Mexico” as areas in which the...