Take a hike, Mexico.
Why do rich countries keep including these Second and Third World dumps in these trade deals? Why couldn’t NAFTA have been just the U.S. and Canada? Why does the EU add poor eastern European crapholes?
Why? Because the trade agenda has been driven by open trade, open borders advocates in big business who give massive sums to politicians to ensure access to cheap illegal labour in the US, and cheaper labour in these foreign countries. They view Americans as nothing more than a giant marketplace to purchase foreign built products to increase profit margins. It’s what happens when the profit motive is globalized and decisions are completely disconnect from patriotism. Trump is making it loud and clear to Wall Street that they can no longer sacrifice Americans and America in their lust for even greater profits.
Reagan gave everything to free the E. European countries.
I’m fine with W. Europe helping them develop.
But #### Mexico.
Also, the more poor countries the more unstable countries. You’re thinking very old world.
Cheap labor. No other reason.
It was prior to NAFTA. It was simply called the Free Trade Agreement. Just Canada and the US. Basically lowered tariffs on stuff on both sides of the border. Was agreed upon in 1988. Was replaced by NAFTA in 1994.
Maybe because they represent a big market for our companies?
Mexicans buy $270B of our goods each year. That's a lot of US jobs.