[CTC] Trump Admin Refuses to Share Plans on Review of USMCA

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Trump Admin Refuses to Share Plans on Review of USMCA
<https://www.citizen.org/news/trump-admin-refuses-to-share-plans-on-review-of-usmca/>

For Immediate Release: December 17, 2025

Contact: Omar Baddar, *obaddar at citizen.org*

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Trump administration provided a closed-door,
oral report on its plans for the 2026 review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada
Agreement (USMCA) to the Senate Finance Committee, following a similar
meeting yesterday with the House Ways and Means Committee. The
administration has indicated it will not be submitting the statutorily
required report to Congress, despite*congressional
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insistence
that details be shared in writing and made public.

In response, *Melinda St. Louis, Global Trade Watch director at Public
Citizen, issued the following statement: *

“The Trump administration is once again ignoring Congress’ legitimate role
in governing this country and keeping the American people in the dark about
important economic policies that affect their daily lives.

“Trump doesn’t want to draw attention to the USMCA because he failed to fix
the hemorrhaging of U.S. jobs fueled by NAFTA’s race to the bottom. The
American people deserve to know what exactly the administration plans to do
with this review: whether they plan to do anything to fix the ongoing
damage or instead insert more corporate giveaways, like they’ve done for
Big Tech.

“It’s becoming a pattern for this administration to ignore legally required
reports on its chaotic trade agenda – perhaps because decisions around
tariffs are made by late-night tweets rather than careful policy research.
The executive order that initiated Trump’s “reciprocal tariffs” required
the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to submit a report to the President
with recommendations on which countries to tariff and how much. That report
(if it exists) was never released, and a FOIA request for it has gone
unanswered.”


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