Article available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3268740
Christopher R. Yukins – George Washington University Law School
The Trump administration recently released the proposed text of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), a major regional trade agreement that, if ratified, would replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). While the government procurement chapter of the proposed USMCA was largely a copy-and-paste from the abandoned Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP), the procurement chapter of the USMCA did contain a few major surprises — including the omission of Canada. This article reviews the background to the USMCA, some of the most important elements of the agreement, and the lessons learned for future international cooperation in procurement policy and law.
This article draws in part upon a paper that Professor Yukins will present at an interdisciplinary conference in procurement at the Sorbonne University, Paris in October 2018.