U.S., Mexico, Canada set out procedures to coordinate in emergencies

The U.S., Mexico and Canada have set out new procedures for coordinating in emergency situations that could disrupt North American trade flows, filling in key details about an effort developed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Thursday announced the three countries had agreed to the procedures, outlined in an addendum to a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement Free Trade Commission decision, following an FTC meeting with her Mexican and Canadian counterparts this week in Phoenix. “The...