U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week that the new trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico could be approved by the end of this year.
Democrats have been criticized for delaying passage of the deal, which has been renamed USMCA in the United States and T-MEC in Mexico. President López Obrador has vowed union freedoms, higher wages, and other labor rights in his bid to assuage the concerns of U.S. congressional Democrats.