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It's my great honor to announce that we have successfully completed negotiations on a brand new deal

To terminate and replace

NAFTA

Jen Kirby you report on international news for Vox and there is big

International news. There's a new NAFTA

Yeah, NAFTA 2.0 or US MCA

Omska

Hmm rolls right off the tongue there you know it

So Trump's been talking smack about NAFTA since as far as I can remember, but it all seemed to come to a head this weekend

Why well that's because the US had a self-imposed deadline of September 30th

The short answer is that the US really wanted to sign this agreement by the end of November

Because the president of Mexico and Rique penignetto was leaving office and the new leftist president

Manuel Lopez Obrador was taking over

So the US has this thing called trade promotion authority GPA

And part of the agreement is the administration gets to negotiate the train deal and Congress has to approve it

But the administration has to like Congress know that a trade deal is coming so they started that process off and

According to the timeline they had to deliver the tax buy or supposed to deliver the tax buy September 30th

And Mexico and the United States had already figured their ish out, but the United States and Canada

We're still lingering, yeah

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