Canada, Mexico To Reject White House's NAFTA Stance: Report

WASHINGTON, DC — Representatives from Canada and Mexico will reject the Trump administration's proposals for renegotiating NAFTA while staying committed to further deliberation, CNBC reported Tuesday.

President Trump railed against NAFTA, a trade deal between the three countries signed in the 1990s, during the 2016 presidential campaign. He repeatedly said that the United States was getting ripped off in its trade deals and that he would renegotiate their terms.

In particular, he called out U.S. automakers with plants in Mexico, most specifically Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford Motor Co. (For more information on this and other political stories, subscribe to the White House Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

For months, during the campaign Trump singled out Ford over plans to build an assembly plant in Mexico and promised that as president, he would slap a punitive 35 percent tariff on any Mexico-made cars entering the country — though it was unclear how he would do that.

Some Trump critics worry that his rhetoric on trade amounts to proposing a trade war, which they say could be devastating for all countries involved.

Trump has also threatened to withdraw from NAFTA if a new deal cannot be reached. It's not clear what reaction the administration will have to Canada and Mexico's rejection of the administration's negotiating stance, CNBC reports.

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