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It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it’s always difficult to sell open markets.
We’re absolutely open to making NAFTA better.
I think NAFTA has been extremely beneficial to the United States, in many ways, but there’s no question after 23 years it needs to be updated, to say the least.
The real end winner of NAFTA is going to be Mexico because we have the human capital. We have that resource that is vital to the success of the U.S. economy.
Like so many free trade deals before and since, Nafta was sold as a massive opportunity for working people and their prospects. Forecasts spoke of hundreds of thousands of new jobs in all three countries. The reality could not have been more different.
Let me first clarify that NAFTA is a trilateral agreement. The decision of walking away is not of Mexico or Canada. The decision of walking away is of the U.S.
Mexico is much bigger than NAFTA.
The mistake we made in the 1990s was overestimating the potential of NAFTA’s positive impact.
I would like to believe that TPP will lead to more exports and jobs for the American people. But history shows that big trade agreements – from NAFTA to the Korea Free Trade Agreement – have resulted in fewer American jobs, lower wages, and a bigger trade deficit.
Ah, the first NAFTA was really, had a lot of disastrous elements for Canada’s environment.
I’m an optimist about NAFTA merely being updated.
In a way, NAFTA is like a scrambled egg. How do you unscramble an egg? The value chains are so interwoven that it would be very difficult to do that. But government policies force us to look for ways to unscramble it.
During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.
I think partly the decline in the peso was due to worry about renegotiation of NAFTA, but I think we also need to think about some other mechanisms for making the peso/dollar exchange rate a bit more stable.
I don’t think that if Justin Trudeau came back from the NAFTA negotiations with a new clause – ‘Oh, by the way, there’s going to be a new legislature that Americans will send members to that will pass laws that will bind Canada’ – I don’t believe Canada would ever go for that.
I opposed NAFTA in 1993 and ’94.
The rules of origin in NAFTA need some tightening. Rules of origin are what let material outside of NAFTA to come in and benefit from all the taxes and tariff reductions within NAFTA.
NAFTA has been a great success for the three countries involved.
I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them – if you can find any.
A scenario without NAFTA is something we have to think about.
I’m at a point in my life where I’m not going to be writing about NATO or NAFTA.
NAFTA is a trilateral agreement, and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions.
As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA’s detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.
We know that trade, NAFTA, the free and open trade between Canada and the U.S. creates millions of good jobs on both sides of the border.
Some really large businesses that get a lot from China would like a NAFTA Superhighway system because it would reduce costs for them to transport containers from China and, as a result, increase their margins.
If NAFTA goes away, it’s not the end of the world. It certainly is not the end of trade between Mexico and the United States.
In Illinois, we’ve seen job losses from agreements like CAFTA and NAFTA. Those agreements didn’t help American workers – and they haven’t brought improvements to the lives of workers in other countries, either.
Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.
E-commerce, telecom – those things have to be captured by the new NAFTA.
NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
