Benefits for the Environment in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

Strongest, Most Enforceable Environmental Obligations of Any Trade Agreement:

The Environment chapter of the USMCA brings all environmental provisions into the core of the agreement and makes them enforceable. The USMCA includes commitments to implement key multilateral environmental agreements to which the United States is a party, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora and the Montreal Protocol on Ozone Depleting Substances. The USMCA also addresses key environmental challenges such as illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and harmful fisheries subsidies. USMCA commits the United States, Canada and Mexico to take actions to combat and cooperate to prevent trafficking in timber and fish and other wildlife. For the first time in a U.S. trade agreement, the USMCA also addresses other pressing environmental issues such as air quality and marine litter.

• Joint Statement of the Environment Committee of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on the Five-Year Review on the Implementation and Operation of the Environment Chapter
• Update from the Third Meeting of the Environment Committee under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA)

• USTR Announces USMCA Environment Consultations with Mexico

• Joint Public Statement on the Inaugural Meeting of the Environment Committee of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement

• USMCA Fact Sheet

• USMCA Environment Chapter

• Environment Cooperation and Customs Verification Agreement between the U.S. and Mexico

• Agreement on Environmental Cooperation

• Commission for Environmental Cooperation

USTR Actions to Monitor and Enforce USMCA Environmental Obligations

• Countering Wildlife and Plant Trafficking at the Southern Border
• Sustainable Forest Management and Combating Illegal Logging
• Sea Turtle Bycatch Reduction and Promotion of Sustainable Fisheries
• Preventing International Pollution Arbitrage, including from Ships
  
• Enhancing Targeting and Analysis for Customs Inspection and Verification
• Strengthening Justice Sector Capacity
• Transboundary North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery

USTR Actions to Monitor and Enforce USMCA Interagency Environment Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement of (IECME)

• Executive Order on the Establishment of the USMCA Interagency Environment Committee

• Members of the USMCA Interagency Environment Committee for Monitoring and Enforcement

• Information on Submitting Information to the Interagency Environment Committee

Public comments regarding any matter under the USMCA Environment Chapter can be submitted to  USMCAenvironment@ustr.eop.gov