Renegotiating NAFTA is governed by the trade deal itself. The talks will be governed by a policy announcement that the Trump administration gave Congress prior to the beginning of the talks. Publicly, Trump has said that he wants the talks to result in a lower trade deficits for the United States.
Although there is no set time table, political considerations both in the United States and in México makes it important that the negotiations be concluded by December. The United States will have the mid elections next year and México will also hold national elections. This makes it difficult for the trade negotiations to go past the beginning of the upcoming new year.
Although Donald Trump argued for harsh and strict renegotiation objectives to protect U.S. jobs and make trade more effective for the United States, the Office of the United States Trade Representative released the official U.S. government’s objectives.
The July 17, 2017 “Summary of Objectives for the NAFTA Renegotiation” document lists the objectives the United States is seeking for the NAFTA negotiations. Instead of the focused, Trump America First objectives, the United States has instead listed vaguely-worded objectives with little specificity and lots of room for interpretation.
Most importantly, there is no Donald Trump threat of pulling out of NAFTA, should the negotiations not result in the lessening of trade deficits or increasing wages in the U.S. Although wage disparity is vaguely listed, the U.S. objectives do not list specific levels nor standards that they wish to achieve.
The Democrats have already criticized the lack of job protection specificity in the objectives. Business leaders in the United States have sighed a sign of relief that Trump appears to have backed away from ending the trade agreement. They have issued statements applauding the administration’s apparent intent on keeping NAFTA in force.
Other than lower trade deficits, the Trump administration seems to have back peddled on ending NAFTA, and instead seems to be on the road to keeping it in force.
Hypocrisy, incompetence in the art of negotiations, or both and then some?
On a different note, el trompas is now amid a full-blown twitter-chisme with the Grand Dragon of Amerik³an Injustice, he who thought was immune from the monarch’s tantrums. Pity the sycophant.
And ole Rex T has gone into hiding out in Texas, lest he be next twitter-chisme victim.
Martin as you claim victim and want a fact based discussion on the issues you post. Here’s one that you can’t get around about how NAFTA has not worked so well for Mexico after 20 years, circa 2014. This report is a a nut shell how Mexico has consistently lagged behind a lot of Latin America. Yep even Mexico GDP has tank since this paper was released in 2014. Also this data can be crossed reference with the other reports, from the UN world economic reports, such other sources as the the World Bank and other sources that show NAFTA has failed the Mexican people and made just a few of the rich in Mexico richer as the average Mexican people have gained little from this agreement.
Sure you will try and bull shit those who believe in the pablum you post that all of this is not true and it’s made up lies against Mexico but the the numbers from many independent sourced do not lie and tell the real picture of how NAFTA has screwed most of the population in Mexico.
From the Center for Economic and Policy research February 2014 by By Mark Weisbrot, Stephan Lefebvre, and Joseph Sammut
Did NAFTA Help Mexico?
An Assessment After 20 Years
http://cepr.net/documents/nafta-20-years-2014-02.pdf
Let see if you have the stones to have a real discussion on NAFTA with real facts, no opinions, no innuendos or supposition. This report alone shows you have been trying to peddling a whole heaping helping of bovine fecal matter about how great NAFTA has been for Mexico. Maybe your buddies and you it has be great but not for most the people of Mexico.