The Trump administration on Wednesday will start to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. And despite very tough talk about NAFTA during the campaign, it appears the administration has backed away from a major assault on the decades-old trade deal. And that is a relief to businesses in all three countries. During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump clearly tapped into frustration about workers who had lost jobs in manufacturing. And he painted NAFTA as one of the central villains responsible for stealing Americans jobs. "NAFTA was the worst deal ever made in the history of the world," he said. "It was a one-way highway out of the United States." Upon taking office, President Trump followed through on his pledge to scuttle another trade deal — the Trans-Pacific Partnership. But by April, it was becoming clear that NAFTA would be different . "I was going to terminate NAFTA as of 2 or 3 days from now," Trump said, but, he said, the president of
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