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Tentative deal to replace NAFTA puts pressure on Canada in win for Trump

  • Written by Tim Meyer, FedEx Research Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University

President Donald Trump on Aug. 27 announced an agreement that he said would replace NAFTA, an almost 25-year-old deal that allows most goods produced in North America to move duty-free across the continent.

Pointedly, the deal excludes Canada, one of the three original North American Free Trade Agreement signatories. All three had been working on...

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