Trump Reaches Revised Trade Deal With Mexico, Threatening to Leave Out Canada

By artappraiser on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 8:42pm |

By Ana Swanson, Katie Rogers & Alan Rappeport @ NYTimes.com, updated 5 min. ago

President Trump said the United States and Mexico had agreed to revise key portions of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement and would finalize it within days.
The president's apparent willingness to move on without Canada raised concern among lawmakers and businesses.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/27/us/politics/us-mexico-nafta-deal.html

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This afternoon I spoke with President Trump – get the details on our call: https://t.co/yQBs0nXGQF
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) August 27, 2018

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 8:46pm

FACT CHECK OF THE DAY: Trump Falsely Calls Preliminary Pact Between U.S. and Mexico ‘Maybe the Largest Trade Deal Ever’

“I cannot imagine any metric in which an agreement between the U.S. and Mexico can be the largest,” a trade expert said.

By Linda Qiu @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 27

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 8:51pm

Photo of President Trump in the Oval Office after speaking with the President of Mexico, tweeted by CNN reporter Rebecca Berg which was retweeted by Maggie Haberman, so the two of them are obviously seeing something special enough about it to share it with their followers:

This @dougmillsnyt photo... https://t.co/GKgLjirunz pic.twitter.com/fsOV9YmjGO
— Rebecca Berg (@rebeccagberg) August 27, 2018

by artappraiser on Mon, 08/27/2018 - 9:02pm

Those painful minutes waiting for Shark Tank to come on. Tough being President.

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 7:16pm

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 8:23pm

This literally never happens, that the OTR portions of these interviews leaks. Most people close to White House have raised possibility that Trump ordered it put out. https://t.co/tDHFpsT6KK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 31, 2018

Kind of a switch from how you described the reporting during that interview. And neither of those reporters would ever commit that kind of violation. https://t.co/tDHFpsT6KK
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 31, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 4:46pm

more White House reporter direct pushback on that Trump tweet:

Zero percent chance Jen or Margaret broke an off the record. Either came from a WH official or from a screw up in Bloomberg’s internal handling of their interview transcript. https://t.co/QrIvNWYK8q
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) August 31, 2018

Maggie's right that this almost never happens, but it has happened once before: when the WSJ wouldn't release a transcript of its Trump interview last year, Politico published the whole thing, off-record parts included: https://t.co/gbJw4e8CRM https://t.co/kUlzbQ6y3V
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 31, 2018

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 6:07pm

Trump Approach on Nafta Relieves Automakers’ Worst Fears

Analysts say that most companies will be able to comply with the conditions in the agreement with Mexico that have been disclosed so far.

@ NYTimes.com, 51m ago

White House Tells Congress It Aims to Keep Canada in Nafta

The Trump administration said that it intends to enter into a revised North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and will continue working to keep Canada in the pact.
While sticking points remain, the United States and Canada agreed to negotiate beyond the Friday deadline, and Congress is unlikely to object.

"Developing" @ NYTimes.com, 1h ago

by artappraiser on Fri, 08/31/2018 - 5:43pm

Trump Reaches Revised Trade Deal With Mexico, Threatening to Leave Out Canada

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