{"id":14810,"date":"2019-12-12T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/?p=14810"},"modified":"2019-12-12T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T19:13:10","slug":"usmca-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/politics\/usmca-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Realtors support USMCA, but it’s not a done deal (yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The National Association of Realtors (NAR<\/a>) came out in support of the U.S., Mexico and Canada (USMCA) Trade Agreement by sending a letter to Speaker of the House, Representative Nancy Pelosi and Republican Leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy. The NAR urges Congress to ratify the USMCA, believing the trade agreement will positively affect the real estate industry.<\/p>\n

What is the USMCA?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This trade agreement is a renegotiation of the NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement). The USMCA gives US dairy farmers increased access to the Canadian dairy market. It also increases incentives for domestic production of cars and trucks. The trade agreement requires minimum wage requirements for factory workers in the automotive industry. <\/p>\n

According to the International Trade Commission, the USMCA would add an estimated $68.2 billion to U.S. economy. Mexicans and Canadians would be able to purchase property easier under the trade agreement, because custom procedures would be modernized.<\/p>\n

The NAR stated, \u201cEffective trade agreements keep the economy strong and help to sustain mutually beneficial relationships between nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is the status of the USMCA?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mexico\u2019s Senate ratified the agreement in June. In Canada, the agreement must be re-introduced to the 43rd Canadian Parliament because it was not ratified under the past session. However, it is supported by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.<\/p>\n

In the United States, the USMCA must be ratified by Congress. In June, Mick Mulvaney, President Trump\u2019s acting chief of staff, said that the trade agreement<\/a> has \u201ca better than two-thirds chance of passing Congress.\u201d <\/p>\n

Speaker Pelosi<\/a> has not yet brought the USMCA to the floor for a vote, although she did state, \u201cWe\u2019re moving ahead on the U.S-Mexico-Canada agreement,\u2026 hoping to be on a continuing path to \u2018yes\u2019\u201d to approve the deal aimed at replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),\u201d at a news conference in October.<\/p>\n

Currently, it\u2019s believed that the impeachment proceedings are derailing support for USMCA, but there are other perceived problems with the agreement that could prevent Congress from ratifying it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(POLITICS) The USMCA has many benefits for all of North America, and everyone seems to like it. The only issue is other important issues going through political houses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337267,"featured_media":14821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[263,766,1234,1897],"class_list":["post-14810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-nar","tag-politics","tag-real-estate-news","tag-usmca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/12\/trump-canada-mexico-usa-usmca.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14810"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14823,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14810\/revisions\/14823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}