{"id":9220,"date":"2025-12-04T18:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cabc.co\/?p=9220"},"modified":"2025-12-04T18:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T18:09:31","slug":"cabc-ceo-beth-burke-testifies-in-support-of-usmca-at-ustr-public-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cabc.co\/cabc-ceo-beth-burke-testifies-in-support-of-usmca-at-ustr-public-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"CABC CEO Beth Burke testifies in support of USMCA at USTR Public Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON, D.C., DECEMBER 4, 2025<\/strong> \u2014 Today, Beth Burke, CEO of the Canadian American Business Council testified in front of the USTR Public Hearing on the Joint Review in support of the USMCA.\u00a0
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Burke emphasized preserving and fully operationalizing the USMCA is essential to ensuring the North American story continues to be one of strength.
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The full text of her testimony follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Good morning,

My name is Beth Burke, and I am the CEO of the Canadian American Business Council. The CABC is the only bilateral, nonprofit, nonpartisan, issues-oriented organization dedicated to fostering and strengthening the relationship between the United States and Canada. We are a US headquartered organization that represents close to 100 bilateral businesses, from small and medium-sized enterprises to some of the largest Fortune 500 and 100 companies from across sectors. I am pleased to join you today and share the importance of the USMCA to the business community.

The USMCA is not your average trade agreement, it is the Art of the International Deal. It\u2019s a story about North America and our strength and economic advantage. Economies that realized long ago that our strengths multiply when we work together.

When you look at the North American supply chain, you don\u2019t just see goods crossing borders, you see workers, innovators, and communities moving forward together. A miner in British Columbia supplying critical minerals for America\u2019s defense materials. Auto engineers in Michigan and parts suppliers in Ontario who are innovating side by side. Farmers in Canada\u2019s prairies growing the crops and raising the American born cattle that go back to the U.S. to help feed families in the Midwest. Midwesterners refining oil from Alberta and Saskatchewan for our energy security. These are just a few examples of the daily, living story the USMCA enables.

At a time of escalating global competition and geopolitical uncertainty, the USMCA is also a story about trust and security. The global economy has become increasingly unpredictable. As rival nations attempt to undermine our institutions and competitive advantage, the USMCA is a strategic tool to counter those adversaries seeking economic dominance. We know we can lean on each other and be successful because of this shared agreement.

Finally, the USMCA is a story about leadership. Our nations, coming together, and creating a unique rules-based economic partnership that is both resilient in crisis and ambitious in opportunity.\u00a0 A region that understands that predictability, openness, and cooperation are the building blocks of growth, and the reason North America continues to outperform global competitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the USMCA, we\u2019ve increased total nominal North American trade by 50% since July 1, 2020. In 2023 alone, the United States, Canada, and Mexico exchanged $1.88 trillion in goods and services. North America\u2019s strength comes from the fact that we operate as a region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we move together, we are more competitive, more secure, and more resilient. We are leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, my primary message today is this: preserving and fully operationalizing the USMCA is essential to ensuring our story continues to be one of strength.<\/strong> The tools within the Agreement give us a clear path to do so. The task ahead is to use them.

The USMCA has proven its value. Now is the moment to protect it, strengthen it, and ensure its full potential is realized. Now is the time, to sign off on our story: one that says North America works together, competes together, and wins together, today, tomorrow, and for generations to come.

Thank you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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