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The US and Mexico reached a tentative agreement that overhauls the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Part of the agreements reached between the parties include:

1. Stricter rules for Mexican car exports to the US – including a requirement that 75% of the content be made in North America and 40-45% of the content made with workers earning at least $16/hour (three times more than Mexico’s minimum wage). This has the goal of discouraging companies to relocate to lower wage Mexico.
2. Mexico has agreed to pass a law giving workers the right to union representation, and to adopt labor laws that meet UN standards.
3. Certain steel and aluminum must be sourced in North America
4. New rules to country of origin for textiles, chemicals, industrial goods.
5. Intellectual property, copyright holders will have copy right protection in markets of all member countries.
6. Digital trade, tariffs will be prohibited for digital products that are distributed electronically.
7. Agriculture, the US and Mexico agreed not to impose tariffs on each other’s agricultural goods and not to use export subsidies.

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