In both cases they want the U.S. to enforce provisions of the free trade agreement among the three nations.
The Senators, both leaders on the Senate Finance Committee, are Democrat Ron Wyden from Oregon and Republican Mike Crapo from Idaho.
The pact’s “full potential remains unrealized,” they said. The senators said USTR “must ensure that the United States gets what it bargained for” and asked trade chief Katherine Tai to take “decisive action to ensure full compliance” with every chapter of the pact.
The letter comes a day after Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jayme White met with his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in San Diego and emphasized the importance of making meaningful progress in the ongoing talks over Mexico’s energy policy under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) that went into effect in 2020, replacing the two-decade-old NAFTA.
