That's right. That's why you can still buy from those countries. So don't distort the facts.
NAFTA was a sovereignty-destroying, job-killing abomination which allows nations to, for instance, use slave labor and thus send their more cheaply manufactured products to America and enjoy exaggerated profits.
You might not like tariffs, but at least they're totally Constitutional, and I believe they can be appropriate in certain extreme cases. And there are plenty of extreme cases.
Furthermore, NAFTA lowers trade barriers between the US and other countries disproportionately.
That's right: the US reduces or eliminates our tariffs, while trading partners get to maintain theirs at a higher rate, or reduce them much more slowly.
NAFTA was patently unfair to the US, just like GATT which followed it. Nobody who is a fan of these lopsided trade agreements has the best interests of the US worker in mind.
Given the actual conditions and the actual provisions, for anybody to claim that NAFTA and GATT are "free trade" agreements is the height of propaganda. They are anything but.
Haven't we all learned by now that when something is named like that, it's usually the opposite: PATRIOT Act, Affordable Care Act, the list goes on and on.
NAFTA/GATT=Free Trade? That's a laugh.
At the time of their ramming through, the vast majority of this board's members were adamantly opposed to these so-called "Free Trade" agreements.
So, all you anarcho-libertarians can try peddling your "NAFTA=free trade" propaganda elsewhere.
And I'm a libertarian myself. I'm just aware enough to see these bloated, thousands-of-pages long pieces of legislation for exactly what they are: destructive of American sovereignty, American Labor, and, for that matter, the environment as well.
Trump as absolutely right about NAFTA.