Jameson Greer

There are things in USMCA that make sense that don't get a lot of news because they function fine.

But there are a lot of things where we don't have the type of market access we want, whether it's in goods or services.

We have Mexico that historically over the past few years has been discriminating against US energy producers and service providers.

We have Canada that

limits our access for dairy, has taken American wine and spirits off its shelves.

So we have a lot of issues like that.

We also have concerns about transshipment through Canada and Mexico of goods from third countries coming through and benefiting from duty-free treatment from USMCA.

And so we want to make sure that if there's an agreement with either of these countries, that it really benefits these countries and not third countries that might use Canada or Mexico as an export hub into the United States.

Well, it's not just privately.

He talks about it publicly, too.

It's not a secret.

I don't think that's super newsy, to be honest.

The president has been really clear this year that he's concerned with the performance of USMCA.

He doesn't feel that we should just rubber stamp this agreement.

I'm having separate negotiations with Canada and Mexico because our relationships with those countries are so different.

And so I think we'll have, over the coming year...

the conversations.

Maybe we'll have separate protocols with Canada and Mexico that we tack on to USMCA.

We just have to fix some of the gaps in that.

The President has already taken action on autos, which is a big problem.