US Senate definitively approves new North American trade deal

• Senators voted 89-10 to approve legislation giving effect to the USCMA deal signed by the three nations in 2018.
• House lawmakers had voted to approve the USMCA last month after winning changes to the initial text.
• The new deal effectively updates the 1994, North American Free Trade Agreement.

Senators voted 89-10 to approve legislation giving effect to the USCMA deal signed by the three nations in 2018, and sending it to Trump's desk.

Trump's signature is not in doubt.

House lawmakers had voted to approve the USMCA last month after winning changes to the initial text.

The new deal effectively updates the 1994, North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump had long denounced and threatened to scrap.