Canada Joins Mexico in Complaint Over U.S. Car-Rules Reading

  • Mexico filed dispute last week after talks failed to fix issue
  • Officials from three countries meeting on Thursday over USMCA

Employees work on the floor at the Magna International Inc. Polycon Industries auto parts manufacturing facility in Guelph, Canada, in 2018.

Photographer: Cole Burston/Bloomberg
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Canada is joining Mexico in formally disputing how the U.S. interprets rules governing the origin of vehicle parts under the trilateral trade agreement between the countries.

The country will join Mexico in requesting the creation of a tribunal of experts to rule on the matter as allowed under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, known as USMCA, Trade Minister Mary Ng said in a statement. Mexico formally made the request last week.