Outlook on the USMCA at the end of 2025

In this week's episode of Legal Evolution, we conclude our 2025 series on the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) with a recap of what the actions of the new administration of Donald Trump in the United States—a notorious free-trade skeptic—have meant for the agreed-upon review of the agreement in 2026. We discuss the unexpected resilience of North American trade relations in the face of the tariff war the U.S. government is waging with other trading partners, our outlook for the review, and the curious adoption by Claudia Sheinbaum's administration in Mexico of trade language similar to that of its northern neighbor.