Jordan Gillette- Revised NAFTA agreement reached after 14 months

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45674261

Summary: On Monday, October 1st, a revised NAFTA agreement had finally been reached after 14 months of hectic debating over the matter. NAFTA has now been renamed as the United States-Mexico-Canada agreement, or better known as USMCA. Most industries residing in all three countries have been eagerly skimming through the 34 chapters of at the new document to see who's going to clearly benefit from these revisions, and who will not. Big, international companies like Amazon will definitely thrive from the trade deal, although smaller industries like the Canadian dairy industry were described as being "sacrificed" in order to defend the deal that's more in favor of the US dairy industry. The trade deal will be more beneficial to Mexico than to Canada, as seen how Mexico agreed to USMCA over a month before Canada agreed to the initial proposal, and Mexico would've been eager to stay in the deal even if it became bilateral. In some ways more than others, USMCA is just NAFTA reworded, but it has improved and eased tensions between the United States, Canada, and Mexico related to trade deals.

Analysis: This article was written by Jessica Murphy and Natalie Sherman. Jessica is a Canadian journalist for BBC Canada, and Natalie is an American journalist who writes for BBC and also writes for the Baltimore Sun. Before reading this article, I had previously heard about the NAFTA revision back at the very end of August, when Mexico had agreed to the new deal. That was actually my first current event article, so it's nice to see the conclusion of that, and USMCA to remain trilateral. This article was written as a way to show that Trump can at least work out an existing stable trade agreement that didn't really need to be revised, and now he can wave that in the public's face and say "hey, at least I did this!" as a way to distract the American from the ever-rising tensions between China and the US as tariffs become more costly everyday. This can be related back to when NAFTA first went into effect in 1994 to settle growing trade-related tensions between Canada, the US, and Mexico.