Agriculture industry’s effort to preserve free-trade pact will be tested in presidential address in Nashville
When President Donald Trump addresses the U.S. agricultural community today, farmers will be looking for signs that a recent push to lobby him in support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been successful.
Fueling those hopes has been the president’s refraining from harsh anti- NAFTA rhetoric since his last tweet regarding the pact in August.
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Trump has continued to meet with “stakeholders on all sides” on the issue, White House officials say Mr. One official familiar with the strategy said that in staying relatively quiet on NAFTA, the president is giving U.S. negotiators maximum leverage in the talks.
Farm-state lawmakers say that in their sessions with him, Trump has been reassuring about NAFTA, which has opened Mexican and Canadian markets to duty-free exports of billions of dollars in U.S. products.
Information from The Wall Street Journal
