As North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations continue into their fifth round, CIGI Senior Fellow Meredith Lilly discusses one of the key American negotiating points: rules of origin. This provision in NAFTA deals with the percentage of a product manufactured domestically. The United States is pushing for an 85 percent regional content requirement for automobiles as a way to bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States. Canada, Mexico and automakers are not onside with this proposal.
How Canada’s Auto Industry Is Vanishing under NAFTA
August 16, 2017