Posted on 08/27/2018 7:58:34 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The United States and Mexico are expected on Monday to announce that they have reached a preliminary deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
U.S. and Mexican trade negotiators worked through the weekend and were meeting again on Monday morning at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to complete the deal on key provisions of the agreement.
The next step is bringing Canada back into the talks to complete the modernization of the 24-year-old three-nation pact.
President Trump has called NAFTA "the worst trade deal ever made" and said he would fix it so the United States would get the bulk of the benefits.
But on Monday he was reveling in the prospects that a new deal could be nearing completion after more than a year of negotiations.
A big deal looking good with Mexico! Trump tweeted on Monday.
The official White House twitter said the president would make an announcement on trade at 11 a.m.
Brian Kuehl, executive director of Farmers for Free Trade, said that while any news of progress on restoring NAFTA certainty is reassuring for American farmers, there are questions that remain on the nature of a final deal."
The group said that farmers will judge any new NAFTA deal on whether it provides new market access for U.S. agriculture exports and whether it will erode the gains made from the original NAFTA.
"On those points, it will be necessary for Canada to rejoin the negotiations and for an agreement to be reached among all parties before a judgment can be made," Kuehl said.
"American farmers know better than most that a deal isnt done until the ink is dry and all parties have agreed."
Justin Trudeau has not got over his but hurt.
Trudeau is about to get crushed. And it not look pretty for Trudeau.

Get ready, soyboy.

You are going to have to get a little closer, soyboy.
Little Justin will unite Canada (to our detriment) by making President Trump the great enemy. Sadly, Canadians are happy to join in. That Trudeau is our Prime Minister tells me that the majority of Canadian are not very bright.
I feel sorry for you, my family and my friends in Canada.
If Trudeau wants a full fledge trade war, he will get it.
And regular Canadians will suffer for it.
Trudeau will likely be voted out IMO.
He’s still adjusting his eyebrows.
Now the trade war narrative is starting to implode, and more heads will explode. It’s all Trump’s fault, these fires in California. Leftard head explosions are the cause.
He will need some extra glue to keep his eyebrows in place.
Excellente!
Is there a Wall involved with any of this?
Glad to hear it.
Once again, President Trump shows THE WORLD what LEADERSHIP looks like. :)
I can’t believe the number of things he’s accomplished in such a short time in office.
And it certainly reinforces the FACT that his predecessor was an anti-American POS hell bent on harming, ‘We The People’ in any way that he could while helping our Enemies, Foreign AND Domestic!
MAGA!
USA has all the cards being the country with trade deficits. Kudos to POTUS Trump for getting rid of free & unfair trade.
Paraphrasing Turmp:
Now I’ll start planning for negotiations with Canada and will ball PM soon.
They tariff our dairy at 300% very unfair.
Best response and way to get them to negotiate is to put big tariffs on cars.
Trudeau and his band of nincompoops are in WAY over their heads... (this is my statement not Trumps, but I’m sure it his POV too LOL)
Trump did just what he promised during the Election..throw out NAFTA and start over and to MAGA..how are the libtards and media going to spin this?
Think United auto worker pattern agreement.
Canada is presented with us/Mexico treaty, take it or be shut down
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