2018 Automotive Projects in North America--Potential USMCA Impacts, an Industrial Info Market Brief

Industrial Info is tracking 360 projects in North America worth more than $33.3 billion that were in development as of January 2018 or started development during this year in the automotive sector. The graphic below shows the distribution of capital projects in Canada, Mexico and the U.S. Earlier this month, the three nations reached an agreement to update the North American Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 pact that governs more than $1.2 trillion worth of trade among the three countries. It remains to be seen if the new deal--known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA--will prompt a redistribution of project activity and/or investment in the automotive sector across the three nations.