Trump's trade deal with Mexico and Canada is showing increasing risk of faltering in Congress
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Grassley said in an interview Thursday that he’d made the case directly to Trump at a recent meeting, but that the president refused to budge. Nonetheless, Grassley predicted Trump would have no choice but to give in if he wants the new NAFTA deal — one of the signature promises of his presidential campaign — to advance.
“The existence of these tariffs for many Canadians raises some serious questions about NAFTA ratification,” Chyrstia Freeland, Canada’s foreign minister, told reporters after a meeting with Lighthizer this week. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can single-handedly determine the pact’s fate by deciding whether to put it on the floor. But she said Thursday that she needs to see stronger enforcement provisions in the deal before agreeing to embrace it.
“It’s going to be a tough fight, but it’s certainly one that’s workable and doable,” said Phil Cox, a veteran of numerous Republican political campaigns, who is helping lead a business-funded campaign to marshal support for the deal. But Trump administration officials are in the middle of several trade-related fights elsewhere, and it’s unclear how much bandwidth they have been willing to devote to the Canada and Mexico deal. They are in tense discussions with Chinese leaders that have already missed several deadlines. Talks with European Union leaders, meanwhile, appear to have flatlined in an dispute over agricultural imports.
No one has given up on the agreement, however. Little overt opposition has hardened, according to William Reinsch, a former Commerce Department official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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