NAFTA negotiations.

I'm surprised there has been no threads on this topic yet so I thought I'd start the pot boiling So far we are a couple meetings into negotiations and all has been eerily quiet from the American side, Canada is confident, Mexico is confident , Canada/Mexico have sort of a preliminary agreement started, everything is calm. Here's what I think is going to happen... 1. Trump is suddenly going to find the time to participate and he is going to blow the whole deal wide open and everyon

By Thinkinoutsidethebox, September 27, 2017
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Geography is the engine of economics. It determines where industry grows and where trade flows. When Governments try to override the dictates of geography, it tends to impeed industry and trade. Much of NAFTA was designed to take advantage of geography. Much of our trade with the US occurs because the geographical circumstance makes it more efficient than trade over seas. The same applies to US trade with Canada and Mexico.