Speakers:

• Audrae Erickson, Vice President, External Affairs and Corporate Communications, Mead Johnson Nutrition
• Amgad Shehata, Vice President, Strategic Development, Latin America, UPS
• Veso Sobot, Director, Corporate Affairs, IPEX
• Eric Farnsworth, Vice President, Americas Society/Council of the Americas (moderator)

Representatives of the private sector working in North America discussed the importance of international supply chains and agriculture trade happening in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. The panelists analyzed how competitive the United States and North America are in the global economy because of preferences coming from the North American Free Trade Agreement and the implications in changing terms for the trade bloc.

Watch the event's first panel with public sector experts discussing the terms and impact of the trade accord.

Speakers:

• Gilles Gauthier, Economic Affairs Minister, Embassy of Canada
• Warren Maruyama, Partner, Hogan Lovells; Former General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
• Charles Roh, Former U.S. Deputy Chief Negotiator for NAFTA
• Kenneth Smith Ramos, Director, Trade & NAFTA Office, Embassy of Mexico
• Wendy Cutler, Vice President, Asia Society Policy Institute (moderator)

Experts and policy developers who work with Mexico, Canada, and the United States discussed the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the potential changes in the trade agreement, and how these negotiations can affect global trade and Asia.

Watch the second panel with private sector representatives at the event held by the Council of the Americas and the Asia Society Policy Institute in Washington, DC. 

Speakers:

• Ambassador Alan Wolff, Senior Counsel, International Trade Practice, Dentons; Chairman, National Foreign Trade Council
• Eric Miller, Vice President, Innovation and Competitiveness, Business Council of Canada
• Carlo Dade, Director, Center for Trade and Investment Policy, Canada West Foundation

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits U.S. President Barack Obama this week, it will be the first time in nearly 20 years there's a U.S. state dinner with a Canadian leader. Since his electoral campaign, Trudeau has made North American collaboration, on trade in particular, a priority. At a Council of Americas panel in Washington DC, experts discussed issues from passing the Trans-Pacific Partnership to border relations to Mexico ties.