The Journal of Commerce reports the twelfth month of decline in trade for the NAFTA countries. U.S trade with Mexico and Canada dropped to $57.3 billion, 20 percent lower than in 2008.

Canada asks the World Trade Organization (WTO) to rule against an American food-labeling law that seems to have destroyed much of its hog-farming industry, states the New York Times. The dispute derives from an American rule requiring that food products be labeled by country of origin. The U.S. government denies that labeling its food products is an act of protectionism, although Americans have decreased purchases of pork produced in Canada, traditionally about 7 percent of Canadian pork is consumed in the United States.

Canadian officials have come up with a resolution that threatened to ban American companies to bid on city contracts because of the 'Buy American' push by the United States says Canadian news source, CBC News.

Earlier this year, the US put an end to the Mexico Cross-Border Trucking Program and a new study has revealed that it has hurt the economy.

Surface transportation between the U.S., Canada and Mexico has dropped by almost 35 percent over the last 5 months, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.