Let’s just say it was not the party of the year. Justin Trudeau, Enrique Pena Nieto and Donald Trump looked like that would rather be almost anywhere else as they formalized the new NAFTA agreement on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires Friday. The pact, which was more or less forced on Canada and Mexico, will be known as CUSMA here. That’s the Canada US Mexico Agreement. It still needs ratification in the U.S. Congress. The road to the rewrite of the North American trade agreement was a “battle,” Donald Trump said at the signing.
Normal practice requires that each country puts its own name first in multilateral treaties. That is why Canada says “Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement” but Chile says “Tratado de Libre Comercio Chile-Canadá.” Also why Mexico will call new NAFTA “TMEUC”. It has always been thus.
— Evan Dyer (@EvanDyerCBC) November 30, 2018
