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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed U.S. House Democrats' revised trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico which includes what she called better protection for workers and the environment.
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The revised United States Mexico Canada trade agreement reached between House Democrats and the White House improves U.S. President Donald Trump's initial deal with new provisions targeting the environment and other areas, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Tuesday.
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Canada, Mexico and the United States have agreed to a fresh overhaul of their quarter-century-old regional trade pact after negotiators approved changes to a preliminary deal struck last year, and officials will sign the new agreement on Tuesday.
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U.S. House Democrats on Tuesday claimed victory in negotiating changes to a U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement to ensure better protection for workers, the environment and remove key provisions that they said would have benefited big pharmaceutical companies.
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One year ago | By Business Insider
President Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced a deal on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that will bring it to a vote in Congress and remove the last barrier to enact the trade pact.
Congress is expected to pass the agreement with bipartisan support, giving the president a major trade victory as he attempts to fight off Democratic-led impeachment proceedings and campaign for reelection.
The new trade deal bears a lot of similarities to NAFTA, but there are major differences as well.
Some of the key differences: increased dairy-market access for the US, a new...
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The major AFL-CIO labor union on Tuesday said it was endorsing the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement after working with lawmakers and members of President Donald Trump's administration to make changes to the proposal first introduced in 2017.
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Canada, Mexico and the United States have reached an agreement on a new North American free trade deal and they will sign it on Tuesday, but the pact still needs the approval of U.S. and Canadian lawmakers, Mexico's president said.
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Efforts to finalize the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement were "looking good," U.S. President Donald Trump said in a tweet on Tuesday shortly before U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to discuss the trade deal at a news conference.
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Canadian and U.S. government representatives will arrive in Mexico on Tuesday to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement , Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said.
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