“If we want greater adherence to the USMCA’s ‘rules of origin’ provisions, the consequences for noncompliance [have] to be greater than 2.5 per cent,” Jason Wade, top administrative assistant to UAW President Shawn Fain, told officials with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Interagency Committee on Trade in Automotive Goods. “We have to make it so the consequences of not following the rules of origin underneath the USMCA is not considered a minor infraction. Chinese companies will take the infrastructure and ecosystem that’s been developed over the last 25 years and just pay the fee and have access to the U.S. market.”

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