President Trump admitted the United States could one day negotiate a separate bilateral trade agreement with Mexico rather than modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement. Reuters reported on Wednesday the administration is looking into both bilateral and trilateral talks.
If the U.S. were to etch out a bilateral agreement with Mexico, negotiators would tackle Canada at a later date, per the president.
“We may do a deal separately with Mexico and we’ll negotiate with Canada at a later time. But we’re having very good discussions with Mexico,” President Trump said.
Mexico president-elect, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, previously said he’s in favor of continuing current NAFTA renegotiations. However, he also ran on a platform to expand Mexico’s domestic food and oil production, which would push the U.S. out of a major market for both products.
NAFTA negotiations have stalled to a crawl after U.S., Mexican and Canadian negotiators were unable to accommodate demands from the Trump administration. Lopez Obrador’s transition team will take part in future NAFTA talks, and discussions about a bilateral trade deal are scheduled to take place in Washington D.C. on July 26.
The administration did not completely douse cold water on NAFTA, though. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said the president and his team are “continuing both conversations.”
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Yeah! Today he said it COULD. Tomorrow, he will say he said “COULDN’T”.
Then he will say “would” when later he will-have-meant “wouldn’t”
Then he will say he “DID” and later call us fools for earring that instead of what he meant – “DIDN’T”
Treasoner-in-chief. Takes orders from Putin until he gets home and Ivanka tells him to say he didn’t.
“I said I would eat you with a fava beans and a nice chianti. When I meant to say I wouldn’t. I misspoke.” Hannibal Lector
ROFLMAO!
Pathetic how so may people fail to stay informed yet continue to drink the Trump-flavored Kool Aid!
Willing to bet 9 out of 10 didn’t even watch Helsinki which is all over YouTube. Russia interrogating the former ambassador was viewed as a sweet deal by Trump and his supporters?
Not to mention that Putin admitted fully supporting Trump during the election.
When they asked Putin if he had compromising information on Trump, he immediately started laughing. A US security expert said that the KGB has been involved with Trump since 1987. He may have been carefully groomed for the position. Most of the revenue of the family business is from Russia and he does have two Soviet born wives.
Lots of Americans are reading FSB propaganda from many sources including RT News. The uninformed think it’s real.
Trump constantly attacks the press. Putin does not have the problem as they don’t have a free press in Russia.
The President of the United States has said, from an official podium with the president of Russia present, that he wants US officials QUESTIONED BY RUSSIANS.
How TF can you possibly still think this guy is for America ??????????
Well, yeah. Trump utterances saying one thing now and the opposite 2 minutes later, is aimed primarily at local US consumption, to strengthen and widen the base he acquired with his fascist demagogy during the pre- and acutal election campaign. The aim is to establish an authoritarian regime in the USA, as a condition for waging devastating wars around the globe.
Thin about the absurdity to demand a country, which he says to be under the total controle of another, and enemy country, to double up her expenses for war preparations, as he did in Brussels.
You have to hate women, minorities, and America real hard.
Treasonous boy.
What does Putin have over him. How much money was he promised in that closed door meeting. Seeing him thrash US intelligence along with Putin was incredible.
There’s only one thing to be done with a traitor. The entire world and especially the Russians are laughing at the stupidity of the American political process and allowing this to keep going on.
Putin blames the US for the collapse of the USSR and now wants to return the favour. Trump is the man doing the job. Wake up people!
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/want-fix-trump-voters-sorry-now-tariffs-killing-missouri-nail-factory/?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiZjlhOWM2MjgtNDY4Zi00MmE5LWIwODktYTZiNWQzMmQ4OWM1In0%3D
“What does Putin have over him” ???
The PP tape! PP all over him…
Anybody remember what happened to FIA Chief Max Mosley ?
When you examine Trump’s past and his family, it must be far beyond a sex tape. His grandfather immigrant ran a brothel and his father defrauded the US government when he screwed the US government building houses for returning GIs and grossly overcharging. That’s where the family fortune came from. And then you have Trumps life… The biggest conman and scumbag since Joseph Smith.
Biggest conman since Joseph Smith? That would be Putin, not Trump. Think of Trump as one of the wives, one of the later wives….
A separate trade deal with Mexico would essentially mean that Canada would left in the wilderness and vulnerable to whatever sanctions Trump wants to impose; it could also mean the end of Justin Trudeau’s career as PM as car companies like General Motors would move work back to the United States or to Mexico.
… before that a separeate trade treaty Canada-Mexico, bypassing the USA whose government is unreliable.
When did the U.S. become a dictatorship?
November 22, 1963.
The history is we won the ground war ww11. But lost to the anti gravity science air ships. As proven by President Eisenhower. The old man made some snooty remarks about those flying scientists. Pictures taken in 1952 Ike was embarrassed by these ships of armed flying scientists (UFOs) over the Capitol. Proof we are living in a illusion. As I see it you all treason complaining don’t amount to a hill of beans. Trusting in the boys of 1947 cia lead to government organized crime. God Bless our President Donald J.Trump.
World War eleven?
anti-gravity ships were banned for use in war. After the massacre in Antarctica in world war nine.
Yes sir, I found a nissan rouge attempting a fold bend. Ducked into a dark worm hole. In time no signal total loss into data sun.
Fellow time traveler, we’ve waited for your question on 11. Zeroing of 4 alignment wheeling fixtures on a flat surface affords total contact time. A signaling of another Z06 event horizon of warped speed. With no bending or folding time guaranteed to reach 12. ZR1 travelers in their wake.