New Delhi, July 2 -- WASHINGTON - Canadian exporters who send nearly 80 percent of their goods south of the border did not lose their trade deal on Wednesday. They lost the certainty around it.

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer announced that the United States would not renew the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement in its current form, triggering an annual review mechanism that could put the three-country pact under renegotiation every year from now until its 2036 expiration, Al Jazeera reported. The decision came on July 1, the exact date the mandatory six-year joint review was due under the agreement's framework and six years to the day it took effect.

"The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form," Gr...