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CUSMA review monitor.
The CUSMA 2026 review opened July 1. Prior Signal tracks the record — committee positions, sourcing thresholds, dispute proceedings — and turns it into briefings you can act on before positions harden.
The full review chain.
Advisory committee composition and negotiating positions
Automotive rules-of-origin thresholds (75%, up from NAFTA's 62.5%)
Steel and aluminum North American sourcing requirements (70%)
Chapter 19 digital-trade protections
Chapter 31 dispute-resolution proceedings
Consultation-period filings and stakeholder submissions
From the review to a decision.
You get recurring executive briefings, alerts when a tracked provision moves, and scenario modelling built around the review’s actual structure — not headline-level simplifications. This is the productized form of our Signal Monitor engagement, built for the review window, and grounded in the same trade & supply chain intelligence work behind our published tariff data.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Common questions.
What is the CUSMA 2026 review?
- A mandatory joint review under CUSMA Article 34.7, landing July 1, 2026. It is a structural checkpoint, not a renegotiation from scratch — the outcome is either a 16-year extension or a shift to six-year rolling reviews if any party declines to confirm.
What are you tracking?
- Advisory committee compositions and the industries and constituencies they represent, negotiating positions as they emerge, dispute-resolution proceedings under Chapters 31 and 10, and the specific provisions most likely to move — automotive rules-of-origin thresholds, steel and aluminum sourcing requirements, and Chapter 19 digital-trade protections.
What do we receive?
- Recurring executive briefings and alerts when a tracked provision moves, plus scenario modelling of partial outcomes — what happens if rules of origin tighten but digital trade provisions hold, and similar conditional reads. Every finding is traceable to the primary source.
Why not just wait for the outcome?
- Only 23% of mid-sized Canadian manufacturers report engaging directly with federal trade consultation processes, per a Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters survey — the consultation period before the formal review is the highest-leverage window for input, and it closes before the outcome is announced.
The consultation window is open now.
Tell us your exposure and we’ll scope a monitoring brief around it.