Category: Trade Works for America

At 25 years old, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is no longer the best free trade agreement for many American workers and businesses.

President Trump is showing surprising deference to his top political adversary, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as he feels pressure to fulfill a signature election promise — approval of a revised trade deal with Mexico and Canada.

There’s a political campaign underway on Capitol Hill and on the airwaves in some key congressional districts, but you’d be forgiven if you haven’t noticed this. It’s a campaign to sell the USMCA.

President Trump’s effort to rework a major trade deal with Canada and Mexico is showing increasing signs of faltering on Capitol Hill, straining under a variety of angry complaints from lawmakers of both parties who won’t commit to backing the plan.

President Donald Trump’s trade deal with Canada and Mexico faces a treacherous path to approval in a split Congress, so the administration is planning to lean heavily on grassroots lobbying to sell the plan to skeptical voters and lawmakers.