President Donald Trump could decide next year to withdraw from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, even though the text of the deal encourages members to remain in the agreement until at least 2036, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in an interview.
“I mean, that’s always a scenario,” Greer told Dasha Burns, POLITICO’s White House bureau chief and host of “The Conversation,” a weekly podcast. “The president’s view is he only wants deals that are a good deal. The reason why we built a review period into USMCA was in case we needed to revise it, review it or exit it.”
Article 34.6 of the agreement says any party has the right to withdraw from the agreement by giving six months’ notice.
However, the Senate Finance Committee, in its report on the USMCA implementing bill Congress passed in early 2020, asserted that lawmakers must vote on any move to withdraw from a congressionally approved pact.
