Trump credits USMCA for reviving American manufacturing and job growth

The article argues that the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has reversed decades of factory closures and boosted U.S. manufacturing output and employment.

The commentary contends that Washington long accepted factory shutdowns as an inevitable cost of globalization, but the USMCA, championed by Donald Trump, has altered that trajectory. By rewarding firms that invest domestically, the pact has lifted exports in sixteen of twenty-one key manufacturing sectors and mandated that three-quarters of a vehicle’s value be sourced within North America, pulling supply chains from China back to the United States.

Vehicle-parts production now exceeds $349 billion a year, creating over 61,000 new jobs and employing more than 930,000 workers nationwide. The piece highlights Constellation Brands’ growth after the Justice Department required AB InBev to divest Grupo Modelo’s U.S. business, noting the company’s multi-hundred-million-dollar purchases of American barley, corn starch and hops, plus substantial logistics and advertising spend.

It also points to a recent USMCA labor-mechanism case that forced compliance at Mexico’s Camino Rojo mineral mine, underscoring the agreement’s enforceability. Overall, the author urges continued pressure on Canada and Mexico to meet commitments and suggests the upcoming review should deepen these gains for U.S. workers.