Thread: President Trump Announces United States-Mexico Trade Agreement - NAFTA No More

President Trump Announces United States-Mexico Trade Agreement

(NAFTA No More - per Breitbart Headline)




August 27, 2018

Michelle Moons


“It’s a big day for trade, big day for our country, a lot of people though we’d never get here because we all negotiate tough. We do, so does Mexico,” said Trump.


Trump told reporters he wanted to do away with the name NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in favor of a new trade deal, The United States México trade agreement. He said the name NAFTA has a bad connotation because the U.S. has been hurt badly by it. He called the new deal a really good deal for both countries, the U.S. and Mexico.



He added, “we’ll see if Canada can be part of deal.” President Trump spoke of possibly making a separate bilateral trade deal with Canada and that negotiations on that would start soon.

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto joined the group by phone for the announcement.


In the room with Trump were U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray Caso, and Mexico’s Economic Minister Ildefonso Guajardo. Chief of Staff John Kelly, National Security Advisor John Bolton, and Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner.


News of the deal began breaking Monday morning ahead of the announcement. It comes on the heels of days of trade negotiations between the two countries.

“We’ve all worked very hard and your brilliant representatives are sitting right in front of me and I thought we would congratulate each other before it got out,” Trump told Nieto. “I know we’ll have a formal news conference in the not-too-distant future.”

Through a translator President Nieto thanked Trump and remarked that this is “very positive for the United States and Mexico.” He went on that the call was to “celebrate the understanding that [they] have had between both negotiating team on NAFTA.”

Nieto spoke of talks over months to renew, modernize, and update the trade deal between the nations as it relates to NAFTA. “And to generate a framework that will boost… productivity in North America,” said Nieto through the translator. “It is our wish now Mr. President that now Canada will also be able to be incorporated in all this.” Nieto said he was sure the U.S. and Canada will begin bilateral meetings on sensitive trade topics to their relationship.

The Mexican President acknowledged both Mexico and the U.S. negotiating teams including Lighthizer’s team. He thanked the support of the White House through Kushner. He thanked his own team from Mexico as well.

Trump thanked the Mexican President as well and referenced his meeting with Nieto in Mexico during the 2016 presidential campaign. “This is something that is very special for our manufacturers and for our farmers from both countries,” said Trump. “It’s also great trade and it makes it a much more fair bill.”

President Trump shared in thanking both trade teams. He spoke of the complicated nature of and months-long efforts that went in to forging the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement. He said that the U.S. hasn’t started with Canada yet as they wanted to work with Mexico first. President Trump said that many claimed it couldn’t be done due to the factions and complexity involved. “We made it much simpler, much better, much better for both countries,” said Trump.

Trump said they will be starting negotiations with Canada very soon and the he will be calling the Canadian Prime Minister. “If they’d like to negotiate fairly we’ll do that. You know they have tariffs of almost 300 percent on some of our dairy products so we can’t have that, we’re not going to stand for that,” said Trump. He indicated that the U.S. may levy tariffs on Canadian auto imports to the U.S. He suggested a separate deal would likely be forged with Canada, but left room for the possibility of including Canada in the deal with Mexico.

“The media should know that the President and the President-elect [of Mexico] worked very closely together,” said Trump of the new trade deal, acknowledging that Mexico will soon have a new President.

“It’s an incredible deal for both parties, most importantly it’s an incredible deal for the workers and for the citizens of both countries,” said Trump. He said the “farmers will be so happy.”

Trump added that they will be working with China, but that it’s “not the right time to talk” with China right now.

President Nieto then expressed hope that as they have reached a “final point of understanding” between the U.S. and Mexico on the deal that they can materialize a formalization of the agreement in the following days. Nieto confirmed the cooperation between himself and the president-elect of Mexico on the deal for a “highly unified front.”

Trump indicated he would soon see President Nieto and there would be a very formal ceremony to mark “one of the largest trade deals ever made.”



https://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...ade-agreement/

Great news!



Trump also said that he'll be repealing NAFTA and sending the notice letter/document terminating NAFTA to Congress on Friday. There's then a 90 day waiting period for some reason, maybe that can be waived or abbreviated, so the new bi-lateral agreement can go into effect sooner. I hope so!

U.S. and Mexico Reach Bilateral Deal on NAFTA





August 27, 2018

John Carney

Mexico and the United States are hammering out the final details of a bilateral deal to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to people familiar with the state of negotiations. A formal announcement is expected Monday.



President Donald Trump tweeted about the deal Monday morning.

A big deal looking good with Mexico!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 27, 2018

The United States and Mexico have been negotiating a deal without Canada’s involvement for several weeks. Negotiators met all last week and spent Saturday and Sunday ironing out the final details on a deal Sunday. The revised deal includes new rules on the portion of cars that would have to be made in North America to qualify for duty-free treatment under NAFTA.


Under the revised terms of the agreement, 75 percent of a car would have to be manufactured in North America, up from 62.5 percent under current rules, according to a person familiar with the talks. The new rules would also impose a sort of minimum wage for car makers, requiring that workers earn a minimum of $16 per hour to qualify for zero tariffs.



On his way into the negotiations Monday, Mexico’s chief trade negotiator Ildefonso Guajardo told reporters Monay here was just “one more important item” to discuss, the Wall Street Journal reported.


The details of the deal are not expected to be released until they are presented to Canada.


Over the weekend Trump hinted that a deal was close to being completed.

Our relationship with Mexico is getting closer by the hour. Some really good people within both the new and old government, and all working closely together….A big Trade Agreement with Mexico could be happening soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 25, 2018



https://www.breitbart.com/economics/...deal-on-nafta/

Ok, but I want to know what was in the trade deal and WHAT exactly was agreed upon. How do we know this is a good deal if we don't know what's in it?

Originally Posted by 6 Million Dollar Man

Ok, but I want to know what was in the trade deal and WHAT exactly was agreed upon. How do we know this is a good deal if we don't know what's in it?

It will be finalized, edited and ready for publication and distributed, that's when we can read it and learn all the details. That should come soon. Today was just the announcement that all the terms and conditions have been negotiated, but the document has to be finalized that represents all the terms and conditions.

U.S. taxpayers to pay $4.7 BILLION in tariff-related aid to farmers

Originally Posted by 6 Million Dollar Man

Ok, but I want to know what was in the trade deal and WHAT exactly was agreed upon. How do we know this is a good deal if we don't know what's in it?

Unfortunately this may be one of those deals where we find out exactly what's in it after it signed and delivered.

Originally Posted by MW

Unfortunately this may be one of those deals where we find out exactly what's in it after it signed and delivered.

Yeah, I'm not bringing out any zippo lighters, pop corn, champagne, or fireworks just yet---once burned and all that.

Congratulations, Mr. President, and thank you, thank you very very much!! Can't wait to see the details, President also mentioned that in the new agreement Mexico has agreed to all types of activities to help us with the border security. Many thanks also to the great team of Americans who worked on the negotiations, especially Robert Lighthizer and surprisingly, Jared Kushner! Thank You!!

I just hope their "agreement" with border security does NOT include millions more of our dollars paying them extortion money to keep their people...which is a LIE and they still dump them over the border!

Charter buses and send them ALL back to Mexico...Mexico can charter their buses and send them back from there!


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