Trump’s NAFTA Strategy: Bluff, Rebrand, Declare Victory

President Trump said Monday he’s “terminating” NAFTA, the free-trade deal with Canada and Mexico he’s called a “disaster” and blamed for job losses in the United States. It looked like a potentially massive development, as if Trump were signaling the end of a $ 1 trillion trade deal that’s defined trade in North America for […]

Apparently, Everyone Negotiating NAFTA Is a Child

If you’re anything like this author, you’ve probably abandoned discussing the North American Free Trade Agreement in your personal life. That’s not because it stopped being important, but rather due to the fact that none of the three countries involved seem capable of making any sort of progress. Presently, the United States and Mexico are focusing […]

Three’s Company, Too? Canada Returning to NAFTA Dance As U.S. and Mexico Approach Auto Deal

Canada says it could rejoin the NAFTA discussion, just as the United States and Mexico approach an agreement on automobiles. The two nations engaged in bilateral negotiations a little less than a month ago, seemingly making positive headway on a trade deal. With President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador assuming office in December, it’s in the United States’ […]

NAFTA negotiators are struggling to meet a congressional deadline

AS FAR back as the campaign trail, President Donald Trump had promised to renegotiate or rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). But Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has said that if this Congress is to have time to approve a new version, it needs word that a deal […]

A new NAFTA may be agreed on soon

The new NAFTA model has many moving parts ONE year ago, a member of President Donald Trump’s administration drafted a short executive order to withdraw America from the North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a trade deal with Canada and Mexico. The obvious interpretation was that Mr Trump was irresponsibly bullying the Mexicans and Canadians into […]

Here’s why an early NAFTA deal is likely

AP Photo/Evan Vucci President Donald Trump has threatened to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement multiple times.  He walked those threats back last week, suggesting that he would try to make a deal by mid-April.  The White House could be pushing for a mid-April deal because of TPA requirements.   Whiplashed?  Last weekend, […]

No deal, no steel: US trade envoy threatens to sink NAFTA

President Donald Trump’s chief trade negotiator has threatened to scupper the free trade deal with Canada and Mexico if no changes are made. US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said bilateral accords could replace it. On Monday, Lighthizer warned that time was running “very short” for the talks in Mexico City to finalize changes to the […]

Cars block the road to a renegotiated NAFTA

ROBERT LIGHTHIZER, the United States Trade Representative, wants renegotiation of the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to speed up. When the sixth round of talks ended on January 29th with only three chapters agreed, he griped: “We owe it to our citizens, who are operating in a state of uncertainty, to move much faster.” But […]

NAFTA talks: Automakers hopeful Canadian compromise will avert disaster

MONTREAL — Auto industry officials fretting about hardline U.S. NAFTA demands with the potential to turn a globally integrated industry upside down now are hopeful that a Canadian compromise plan could avert disaster. The officials, speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of NAFTA talks here, said strenuous lobbying efforts on behalf of the industry were […]