Inside Trade

October 5, 2025

Analysts: Tariffs could undermine USMCA countries’ coordination against China

By David LaRoss  / June 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The upcoming U.S-Mexico-Canada Agreement review offers an opportunity for the three member countries to solidify measures designed to counter Chinese market dominance in several industries, but new U.S tariffs on the other signatories could drive them away from the U.S. instead, analysts and former officials say. “We genuinely have a question now about whether Canadian and Mexican cooperation is being sought by the Americans in its attempts to contain China and or compete with China,” Meredith Lilly, a professor of...

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