The rule is up for review.
On July 1, 2026, the U.S. Trade Representative opens the statutory review of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement — the trade rule that replaced NAFTA in 2020. The next agreement is being written right now. Two paragraphs in the comment file may be the only thing that names your industry, your town, or your labor floor before the negotiators decide.
The stakes.
What the last two trade rules actually did.
- 766,000 American job opportunities lost in the seven years after NAFTA, per the Economic Policy Institute. 72% of them in manufacturing.
- < 10% Of Mexican plants meet the USMCA wage threshold. Renegotiation did not close the gap.
- $35 / $5.70 American auto-worker hourly wage versus Mexican average. The rule was rewritten. The wage gap held.
- 2025 Year the Independent Mexico Labor Expert Board found Mexico out of compliance with USMCA's labor provisions.
The same shape, in new vocabulary.
On April 16, on Capitol Hill, the president of America's largest auto union stood with Senator Bernie Sanders and said millions of jobs were destroyed on false promises of shared prosperity, that the country called it NAFTA, and that the same corporate power brokers today want everyone to believe killing millions of jobs in the name of AI will be a good thing. On May 11, Michigan Advance ran his essay — Artificial intelligence is the UAW's latest life-threatening crisis. On May 21, the t-shirt and the USMCA scrap call. Three rooms, one message. A union president with 400,000 members said the same thing three times in thirty days.
The polite American story about USMCA is that it is being studied. Forms are being filed. Working groups are meeting. The polite American story about AI is the same. The trade rule wrote the 1993 contract, and that contract disposed of the worker. The renegotiation didn't fix it. Now the same boardrooms are writing the next rule, about AI, in the same vocabulary. July 1 is when the trade rule comes up for review. The comment file is part of the record the negotiators read.
See the structural argument in full: Report 001 · The WARN Act Gap and Dispatch 003 · The Rule Writes the Contract.
File a public comment.
Two paragraphs naming an industry, a town, or a labor floor that ought to be written into the next agreement carries more weight than the form letters that fill these files. Anyone can file. We built a starter packet — what to write, where to send it, what the negotiators are actually reading.
- 01 Open the comment portal. regulations.gov is the federal docket. Search "USMCA review 2026."
- 02 Use the toolkit. The starter packet has a two-paragraph template that names an industry, a town, and a labor floor. Edit it to your facts.
- 03 Submit. Save the receipt. Comments go in the negotiating record. Forward your receipt to usmca@cancelclankers.com and we'll add a counter to the Roster.
The receipts.
Already on the brand. Cross-cut the surfaces.
Get the peg week Dispatches.
The four Sundays leading to July 1 will carry the structural argument every week. Sign the Roster — they land at 7am.