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Trump threatens to terminate Nafta, renews calls for Mexico to pay for wall
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Trump threatens to terminate Nafta, renews calls for Mexico to pay for wall
After tweeting about Hurricane Harvey on Sunday morning, Trump turned his attention to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Martin Pengelly and agencies
Sunday 27 August 2017 17.25 BST
Donald Trump on Sunday paused his monitoring of flooding and hurricane recovery in Texas to fire off tweets on familiar bugbears including Nafta and his promised border wall.
Canada and Mexico were being “very difficult” over the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta, the president wrote, threatening to terminate the deal instead.
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Nafta has been a target for Trump since the presidential campaign. Shortly before writing that he was “going to a cabinet meeting (tele-conference)… on #Harvey”, he tweeted that it was the “worst trade deal ever made” and added: “May have to terminate?”
The US, Mexico and Canada have begun formal negotiations to rework the 23-year-old trade deal that Trump blames for hundreds of thousands of lost US factory jobs. The US has raised tariffs on Canadian lumber. Trump has also said: “Canada, what they’ve done to our dairy farmworkers is a disgrace.”
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After tweeting about Hurricane Harvey on Sunday morning, Trump turned his attention to the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement
Martin Pengelly and agencies
Sunday 27 August 2017 17.25 BST
Donald Trump on Sunday paused his monitoring of flooding and hurricane recovery in Texas to fire off tweets on familiar bugbears including Nafta and his promised border wall.
Canada and Mexico were being “very difficult” over the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta, the president wrote, threatening to terminate the deal instead.
-snip-
Nafta has been a target for Trump since the presidential campaign. Shortly before writing that he was “going to a cabinet meeting (tele-conference)… on #Harvey”, he tweeted that it was the “worst trade deal ever made” and added: “May have to terminate?”
The US, Mexico and Canada have begun formal negotiations to rework the 23-year-old trade deal that Trump blames for hundreds of thousands of lost US factory jobs. The US has raised tariffs on Canadian lumber. Trump has also said: “Canada, what they’ve done to our dairy farmworkers is a disgrace.”
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/27/donald-trump-camp-david-nafta-mexico-wall-canada
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