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The first year of implementation of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the USMCA, was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic shockwaves it sent throughout the region and the world. Difficulties aside, the pandemic also served to reinforce the importance of North America as an economic bloc. Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow Earl Anthony Wayne, former Ambassador of the U.S. to Mexico and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada, joins us to discuss the first year of the USMCA.

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This episode of Americas 360 was produced and edited by Oscar Cruz, Olivia Soledad, and Sam Vicroy.


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