Top U.S. trade negotiator Jamieson Greer said Canada must change a number of its policies including in the dairy sector if it wants the United States to commit to a long-term renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
In a portion of his closed-door remarks to members of Congress that were released to the public Dec. 17, Greer said that a “rubberstamp” of USMCA at next year’s July 1 joint review is not in the American “national interest” unless Canada changes its dairy supply management system, digital streaming rules, and provincial import bans on U.S. alcohol.
Greer also outlined U.S. requests that Mexico do more to enforce labour standards, give U.S. energy firms more access to bid on contracts instead of favouring state-run firms, protect U.S. intellectual property, and stop the flow of Chinese-made products from entering the United States….