Survey says: USMCA chaos edition

President Trump has decided not to renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Officially, what follows now is a period of annual reviews every year until a new agreement is reached or until USMCA expires approximately 10 years from now, on July 1, 2036.

Trump didn’t press the nuclear button. (Or at least hasn’t yet.) That would have been giving notice of the US’s intention to leave the trade pact within six months.

Michael Cowden

Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.