NAFTA PRIORITIES:

MEXICO

1. Preferential market access for goods and services without restrictions for NAFTA region.
2. More predictable, agile, transparent customs procedures.
3. Promote measures that avoid unjustified barriers to free trade.
4. Promote good practices in regulation planning, emission, implementation, and revision.
5. Maintain non-discriminatory treatment toward Mexican investors.
6. Expand the categories for temporary entry of business people and promote labor mobility.
7. Promote skills development programs.
8. Boost the participation of small and medium-sized enterprises.
9. Establish transparency and anti-corruption measures.
10. Strengthen dialogue and cooperation in commerce, the environment and improve border
infrastructure.

CANADA:

1. A new chapter on labor standards

2. A new chapter on environmental standards
3. A new chapter on gender rights
4. A new chapter on Indigenous rights
5. Reforms to the investor-state dispute settlement process
6. Expand Procurement
7. Freer movement of professionals
8. Protect Canada’s supply-management system for dairy and poultry
9. Protect cultural exemptions
10. Maintaining a process to regulate anti-dumping and countervailing disputes, like the one over
softwood lumber

U.S.A

1. Improve the U.S. trade balance and reduce the trade deficit with the NAFTA countries.
2. Establish a mechanism to resolve expeditiously unwarranted barriers that block exporting U.S.
food and agricultural products. (Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS)
3. Ensure that, to the greatest extent possible, shipments are released immediately after
determining compliance with applicable laws and regulations and provide for new disciplines on
timing of release, automation, and use of guarantees. (Customs, Trade Facilitation , and Rules
of Origin)
4. Require NAFTA countries to apply decisions and recommendations adopted by the WTO TBT
Committee that apply, inter alia, to standards, conformity assessment, transparency, and other
areas. (Technical Barriers to Trade)
5. Obtain commitments that can facilitate market access and promote greater compatibility among
U.S., Canadian, and Mexican regulations by ensuring transparency and accountability in the
 development, implementation, and review of regulations, including by publication of proposed
regulations. (Good Regulatory Practices)
6. Bring the labour provisions into the core of the Agreement rather than in a side agreement.
Require NAFTA countries to have laws governing acceptable work conditions with respect to
minimum wages, hours of work, and occupational safety and health. (Labor)
7. Preserve the ability of the United States to enforce its trade laws, including the antidumping,
countervailing duty rigorously, and safeguard laws. (Trade Remedies)
8. Secure commitment by NAFTA countries to provide information resources to help small
businesses navigate FTA requirements for exporting to the NAFTA markets. (Small- and
Medium-Sized Enterprises)
9. Encourage the early identification and settlement of disputes through consultation and other
mechanisms. Establish a dispute settlement process that is transparent by requiring that parties’
submissions be made publicly available. (Dispute Settlement)
10. Ensure that NAFTA Countries avoid manipulating exchange rates in order to prevent effective
balance of payments adjustment or to gain an unfair competitive advantage. (Currency)

REFERENCE:

CBC/Radio Canada. (2017, August 14). Canada's 10 Nafta demands: A list of what Canada
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Infographic: Mexico's priorities for NAFTA's renegotiation. Wilson Center. (n.d.). Retrieved
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priorities-for-naftas-renegotiation

Table of contents - United States Trade Representative. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2023, from
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Releases/NAFTAObjectives.pdf.

What the U.S., Canada and Mexico want from a new NAFTA. (n.d.). Retrieved January 27, 2023,
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