Real Conservatives Oppose NAFTA
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The New American ^
| 09 June 2011 | Daniel Sayani
One of the most important, but widely unknown bills currently proposed in Congress is legislation that would end American participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The bill, H.R. 4759, calls for America’s withdrawal from the free trade agreement, and is sponsored by several Democrats and a small cadre of
Republicans, including Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Rep. Walter B. Jones (R- N.C.).Introduced back in February, the legislation seeks to immediately terminate American participation in NAFTA. Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-N.C., left), the bill’s chief sponsor, says that “NAFTA has done way too much damage, and we need to...
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Trump's Wish List for NAFTA Set to Come Today
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CNN ^
| July 17, 2017: | Patrick Gillespie
President Trump hates America's trade deals. But
he hasn't said what better deals would look like, or how he'll bring jobs back from Mexico. That should change on Monday. Trump's U.S. trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, is expected to publish a list of goals for the upcoming renegotiation of NAFTA, the free trade agreement among Canada, Mexico and the United States. Trump made NAFTA his No. 1 trade target during his campaign for the White House. "NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country," he said during the first presidential debate in...
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NAFTA: The Misnamed Treaty (1992)
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The New American ^
| 28 December 1992 | Thomas R. Eddlem
Describing the start of negotiations leading to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), M. Delal Baer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies wrote, "A new continentalism took hold on February 5, 1991." His
comments appeared in the Fall 1991 issue of Foreign Affairs, the flagship publication of the global-minded Council on Foreign Relations. With great enthusiasm, Baer, who himself is a member of the CFR, continued, "NAFTA, if and when completed, will reshape corporate strategies, redraw the mental map of citizens in each country and gradually create a North American economic identity based upon global competition."NAFTA follows...
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NAFTA Has Practically Expelled Our Best Companies
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E-I-C ^
| 8/26/16 | G. Barlow
Since the passage of NAFTA, the American economy, which was already stagnating, has gone downhill at an increasing clip. When
we examine the details of the “free trade” agreement, it is easy to see why it has caused so much devastation.
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Is the USMCA Really a Good Replacement for NAFTA?
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Townhall.com ^
| October 21, 2019 | Rachel Alexander
President Trump is eager to have Congress ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which modernizes NAFTA. He has been complaining over Twitter about the Democrats neglecting it because they are focused so much on impeachment. Congressional
Democrats have issues with it currently and want changes made, but House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says things are moving along. If they don’t agree to pass it, Trump has threatened to withdraw from NAFTA. But is the new agreement much of an improvement?NAFTA helped the three countries’ economies and made Mexico and Canada the U.S.’s two biggest trade partners. The USMCA would take things a step further....
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NAFTA May Have Saved Many Autoworkers’ Jobs
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New York Times ^
| March 29, 2016 | Eduardo Porter
When Donald Trump threatened to “break” the North American Free Trade Agreement, auto industry workers offered up some of the loudest cheers. Mr.
Trump easily won the Republican primary in Michigan this month. The state, home base for the American auto industry, also delivered an upset victory to Bernie Sanders, the Democratic anti-NAFTA standard-bearer. But the autoworkers’ animosity is aiming at the wrong target. There are still more than 800,000 jobs in the American auto sector. And there is a good case to be made that without NAFTA, there might not be much left of Detroit at all. “Without the...
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NAFTA’s Impact on the U.S. Economy: What Are the Facts?
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knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu ^
| Sept 2016
NAFTA When President Bill Clinton signed the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in December 1993, he predicted that “NAFTA will tear down trade barriers between our three nations, create the world’s largest trade zone, and create 200,000 jobs in [the U.S.] by 1995 alone. The
environmental and labor side agreements negotiated by our administration will make this agreement a force for social progress as well as economic growth.” Twenty-three years later, scholars and policy makers often disagree about the impact that NAFTA has had on economic growth and job generation in the U.S. That impact, they say, is not always...
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Trump Tweets NAFTA Status.
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Twitter ^
| August 10, 2018 | President Donald J. Trump
Deal with Mexico is coming along nicely. Autoworkers
and farmers must be taken care of or there will be no deal. New President of Mexico has been an absolute gentleman. Canada must wait. Their Tariffs and Trade Barriers are far too high. Will tax cars if we can’t make a deal!
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NAFTA 2.0 Won’t ‘Bring Back Our Jobs’
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American Greatness ^
| September 1, 2018 | Spencer P Morrison
In 1993, President Bill Clinton promised that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would create “a million [American] jobs in the first five years.” He
also said NAFTA’s “side agreements” would “make it harder than it is today for businesses to relocate solely because of very low [Mexican] wages or lax environmental laws.” Bill Clinton lied. More than 800,000 American manufacturing jobs moved to Mexico since 1993, “solely because of very low [Mexican] wages or lax environmental laws.” Not only was Clinton wrong, NAFTA also caused numerous unintended harms: the post-NAFTA unemployment wave is largely to blame for the...
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Trump will quit TPP in first days (and maybe NAFTA too)
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POLITICO ^
| 11/11/2016 | Adam Behsudi
President-elect Donald Trump plans to move quickly to fulfill some of his most controversial campaign promises related to what he derided as “job-killing” trade policies, according to an internal transition team document shared with POLITICO. Within the first 100 days, his administration will drop out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and 100 days
after that it could withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement unless certain demands are met, according to the described policy road map.
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The NAFTA teardown: Here's where Trump could start
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CNN - Money ^
| December 1, 2016: 10:05 AM ET | Patrick Gillespie
President-elect Donald Trump is clear: Starting Day 1, he wants to renegotiate or withdraw from NAFTA, the free trade deal among three countries: America, Canada and Mexico. Trump's pledge begs the question: Where do you start? Trump
could begin with a controversial chapter of NAFTA that some experts believe gives corporations an incentive to create jobs across the border by giving them too much power to skirt and battle foreign government laws. It's in Chapter 11 of NAFTA and it''s called the investor-state dispute settlement or ISDS. It gives U.S. corporations the power to sue the Canadian or Mexican government...
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5 Reasons Why Trump Should Withdraw The US From NAFTA & Put America First
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National Economics Editorial Blog ^
| April 26, 2017 | Spencer P Morrison
CNN says automation is to blame for America’s manufacturing job losses; and what’s worse, there’s more to come—and no, it has absolutely nothing to do with bad trade deals like NAFTA, nor China’s predatory trading strategy. Nope.
Nothing to see here people. Move along. Automation is bad, and your jobs are never coming back. This view was echoed recently by the Guardian too. Of course, this is all just fake news—CNN has to earn its reputation somehow. In reality, automation is only half the story: if you look at its impact relative to output, you’ll see that automation doesn’t really...
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Trump changes course on NAFTA, drops threat to back out
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The Globe and Mail ^
| April 27, 2017 | Adrian Morrow
U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off a plan to start the process of withdrawing from the North American free-trade agreement after emergency talks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. The White House had been considering an executive order that would have taken the first step toward
pulling the U.S. out of NAFTA, senior officials told U.S. media outlets. The directive, drafted by National Trade Council director Peter Navarro and chief strategist Steve Bannon, was ready to be signed later this week or early next. But after word of the order came out in the...
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Trump's threats to pull out of NAFTA: Crazy like a fox?
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Fox News ^
| April 28,2017 | Howard Kurtz
The president called the other two leaders, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pena Nieto, and the White House issued a statement late Wednesday night: “President Trump agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to enable the negotiation of the
NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three countries.” Now some pundits might interpret this as lurching back and forth. But my take is that it was a deliberate strategy. And perhaps the media were used. Hours before speaking to the leaders of Canada and Mexico, Trump sent...
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Poll: Fewer than 1 in 3 Americans think NAFTA is beneficial
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The Hill ^
| 08/02/18 | Niv Elis
Fewer than a third of Americans think the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is good for the country, according to a new study that comes as the Trump administration pushes to renegotiate the free trade deal with Canada and Mexico. A plurality of Americans, 36 percent, surveyed in a YouGov poll
released by the Bertelsmann Foundation said it would be beneficial for the U.S. to leave NAFTA, compared to 30 percent who said it would not be beneficial. Far more respondents in Mexico, 63 percent, and Canada, 58 percent, said it would be not beneficial for their countries to...
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Trump Has Huge Opportunity To Kill NAFTA
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The New American ^
| 16 November 2016 | Steve Byas
The globalist modus operandi of handing over to the president immense powers to act unilaterally without Congress may now come back to bite them. During
the recent presidential campaign, President-elect Donald Trump often railed against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), charging that it was hollowing out American industry, costing hundreds of thousands of Americans good-paying jobs, and promising to do something about it were he to be elected.Turns out, the provisions of NAFTA may very well allow President Trump to act on his own to change tariff rates, force negotiations to modify the pact, or even withdraw the...
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Mexico says deal with U.S. on NAFTA issues may be 'hours' away
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Reuters ^
| August 22, 2018 | by Sharay Angulo, Timothy Aeppel
Agreement between Mexico and the United States on outstanding bilateral issues in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement could be just a few hours away, Mexican officials said on Wednesday. “We hope that we’ll have a solution in the next couple of hours, or the next couple of days,”
Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told reporters.
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Official: Mexico could leave NAFTA if not satisfied
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Associated Press ^
| Jan 24, 2017 12:06 PM EST
Mexico’s Economy Secretary says his country could leave the North American Free Trade Agreement if talks on re-negotiating it are unsatisfactory. Ildefonso
Guajardo tells the Televisa network that his country will be in a weak position at talks with U.S. President Donald Trump unless Mexico makes it clear it won't accept just anything in order to preserve the three-nation trade pact. …
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Trump to Renegotiate NAFTA With Canada and Mexico
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The New American ^
| 24 January 2017 | Warren Mass
The day before he signed an important executive order to withdraw from the negotiating process for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), President Trump indicated that he will renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Canada and Mexico.Reuters reported that during a swearing-in ceremony for his top White House advisors on January
22, Trump said, "We will be starting negotiations having to do with NAFTA. We are going to start renegotiating on NAFTA, on immigration and on security at the border.""Anybody ever hear of NAFTA?" Trump joked at the ceremony. "I ran a campaign somewhat based on NAFTA. But we’re...
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Trump says he won't sign any NAFTA deal until after the midterms
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Washington Post ^
| 7/1/18 | Heater Long
President Trump said Sunday that he is “not happy” with the revised NAFTA deal that his administration has been hammering out with Canada and Mexico and that he doesn't want to sign any new agreement until after the midterm elections in November. The remarks were aired on Fox News's “Sunday Morning Futures”
on a critical day in the U.S. relationship with its neighbors as Canada started collecting tariffs on $12.6 billion worth of U.S. products to hit back at Trump and Mexican voters went to the polls to pick a new president, who will play a key role in shaping...
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