Donald Trump is strong-arming Congress into accepting the new NAFTA
Why they won’t like it
FOR YEARS President Donald Trump has been itching to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a trade deal between America, Canada and Mexico. But as long as negotiations about a revamp continued, he held off. The day after signing a new deal on November 30th, rebranded the USMCA, he announced that he would “shortly” indulge himself and terminate the original deal after all. That would force Congress to choose between the USMCA and a NAFTA-less world.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline “Foul play”
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