October 2, 2018
SINCE THE TPP WAS PREFERABLE...:
Trump's New Nafta Pact Looks More Like a Rebranding Than a Revolution (Shawn Donnan, October 1, 2018, Bloomberg)
The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, clinched just before a midnight deadline on Sunday, reads more like an amalgam of the existing Nafta along with certain provisions from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump pulled the U.S. out of on his first full working day in office.The risk, according to some economists, is that Nafta 2.0 imposes more regulatory demands on companies including automakers and ends up hurting rather than helping North America's competitiveness versus rivals like China.
...just join up and let him rename that one too.
Posted by Orrin Judd at October 2, 2018 4:02 AM