After Donald Trump`s presidential election, a number of trade experts said that exiting NAFTA, as Proposed by Trump, would have a number of unintended consequences for the United States, including limited access to the largest U.S. export markets, reduced economic growth and higher prices for gasoline, cars, fruits and vegetables. [10] The textile, agriculture and automotive sectors would be most affected. [11] [153] USMCA Schedule 23-A calls on Mexico to pass legislation that improves the ability of unions to negotiate. [44] The specific standards that Mexico must meet are set out in Convention 98 of the International Labour Organization on freedom of association and collective bargaining. The government of Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lépez Obrador passed a law in late 2018 that respects these international standards. After U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2017, he tried to replace NAFTA with a new agreement and began negotiations with Canada and Mexico. In September 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada reached an agreement to replace NAFTA with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), and the three countries had ratified it until March 2020.

Nafta remained in effect until the implementation of the USMCA. [13] In April 2020, Canada and Mexico informed the United States that they were ready to implement the agreement. [14] The USMCA came into force on July 1, 2020 and replaced NAFTA. On December 9, 2019, Fox News reported that negotiators from the three countries reached an agreement on implementation, paving the way for a final agreement within 24 hours and ratification by all three parties before the end of the year. Mexico has agreed to impose a minimum wage of $16 per hour for Mexican auto workers by a „neutral“ third party. Mexico, which imports all of its aluminum, also objected to the provisions relating to the U.S. steel and aluminum content of automotive components. [37] During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to renegotiate NAFTA, which he called „the worst trade deal ever.“ As president, he did.