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The bill encourages trilateral cooperation to boost North American travel, tourism jobs, and easier cross-border travel, but it is nonbinding and risks favoring industry interests and larger operators while imposing administrative costs without guaranteed funding.
Small-business owners, transportation workers, and U.S. travel-service exporters could see stronger demand, job support, and preserved export revenue as Congress prioritizes North American travel and tourism and encourages cross-border travel.
Consumers and operators could experience easier, more efficient cross-border travel thanks to regular trilateral information exchange and coordination on visas, transport, and other travel frictions.
The U.S. travel and tourism industry — including the U.S. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board and small businesses — will have a formal channel to provide input to trilateral discussions and U.S. representatives must brief key congressional committees, increasing industry participation and congressional transparency/oversight.
The bill is largely declarative and nonbinding, so promised cooperation may not lead to funded policies or concrete changes — Americans may see little direct benefit without follow-up action or appropriations.
Industry influence in a trilateral forum could prioritize commercial interests over consumer protections and local community concerns, risking weaker safeguards for consumers and community priorities.
Trilateral coordination may favor larger cross-border operators and exporters over small, local tourism businesses, concentrating benefits among big firms rather than local providers.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to seek a USMCA Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group to coordinate policy and boost North American travel competitiveness.
Introduced February 5, 2026 by Catherine Marie Cortez Masto · Last progress February 5, 2026
Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to push for creation of a trilateral Travel and Tourism Trade Working Group under USMCA that would coordinate travel and tourism policy among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The working group would include senior travel and tourism officials from each country, specified U.S. agencies, seek industry input, meet at least annually, and regularly brief several congressional committees. Also states Congress’s nonbinding view that travel and tourism are major U.S. economic sectors, that Canada and Mexico supply a large share of U.S. inbound visitors, and that a USMCA working group would help sustain North American tourism competitiveness and jobs. The Act defines "North America" and references the statutory definition of USMCA used in existing law.