Posted on 04/28/2017 6:38:44 AM PDT by reaganaut1
President Donald Trump was prepared to end the North American Free Trade Agreement deal, which had governed trade relations for the past 23 years, with a dramatic announcement Saturday at a Pennsylvania political rally marking his 100th day in office.
As rumors spread of the possible action, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto called the president urging him not to pull out of the accord. “Let me think about it,” Mr. Trump said. Within a half hour a call came in from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with a similar request.
After the talks, Mr. Trump was convinced “they’re serious about it and I will negotiate rather than terminate,” the president said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Sonny Perdue—the agriculture secretary who took office two days earlier—and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross met with Mr. Trump and showed him a map indicating the states where jobs would be lost if the pact collapsed, according to a person familiar with the matter. Many were farm and border states that voted heavily for Mr. Trump.
Those conversations, along with a flood of calls to the White House from business executives, helped steer Mr. Trump away from an idea that some of his own advisers feared was a rash and unnecessary threat to two trading partners who fully expected to renegotiate the agreement anyway.
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Globalists don’t back out of nafta.
Amazing how just the threat of action, gets results.
As I recall, Trump repeatedly said NAFTA was a bad deal. He didn’t say “ no deal, “ EVER. If these guys renegotiate to our benefit, we win. That’s what I want, that’s what Trump promised.
The Wall Street Journal has gone full WP/NYT.
So who am I going to believe?
Trump’s version, Canada and Mexico are going to sit down and renegotiate, or The WSJ Trump backed down?
Sorry WSJ, there was a time when I respected your organization.
That ended quite some time ago.
You decided to go full on Leftist, so don’t blame me.
Thanks for the reminder......plus the fact that Trump is a great negotiator means we’ll win...... again.
Good, so now Trump renegotiates it from a stronger position.
WSJ and other globalists throw Americans under the bus like cannon fodder.
He said renegotiate not back out.
A lot of people need to learn how Trump makes a deal.
Republican method:
1) Start with compromise position (to appeal to Ds)
2) Negotiate down to position Ds want as media calls the compromised position “extreme”.
Democrat method:
1) Start with extreme position
2) Don’t give an inch while media clobbers Rs for not accepting it
Trump method:
1) Start with extreme position
2) Negotiate down to what you want as media focuses on extreme position and is unwilling to recognize/report that “the dictator” is willing to negotiation/compromise
-- Pat Buchanan
For the (World) Street Journal globalism takes precedence over reasonable analysis.
The General has a strategy and he’s probing. Of course that’s lost on the idiot press.
Maybe the same senior advisors could have done a similar analysis of the impacts and benefits of the softwood lumber tariff that was just imposed on Canadian lumber. The biggest beneficiaries of this tariff will be U.S. lumber producers in Washington and Oregon ... two states which did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016.
Exactly! I remember him repeatedly saying he would renegotiate NAFTA for a better deal!
I see keeping American's working as an apolitical issue. Only a really f upped individual like yourself would use this issue as political football. Do you think timber people are Democrats?
Maybe I’ve missed some of Trump’s statements on NAFTA, but what I remember from a year and a-half of campaigning is several statements that he planned to renegotiate NAFTA, not end it. I think any talk of ending it is fairly recent in the almost twenty month period involved.
This does sound like a negotiating tactic, not the cave in or “back off” the WSJ is portraying here.
The idiots know nothing about negotiation. We all knew what he was doing, but the poor morons in the media didn’t have a clue.
Politicians and media have no experience with how a successful businessman conducts business. By the was just so those who have their panties in a twist over this, do they really think Mexico and Canada would stop doing business with the US just because that bad deal for America is scrapped
I am for whatever makes the WSJ editorial staff unhappy.
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