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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday touted a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico as a win for U.S. workers while investors breathed a sigh of relief that the key pillars of NAFTA had survived his hardball strategy to reshape global commerce. Washington and Ottawa reached an agreement on Sunday after weeks of tense bilateral talks to update the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. The United States had forged a separate trade deal with Mexico, the third member of NAFTA, in August.
The new agreement, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), is aimed at bringing more jobs into the United States, with Canada and Mexico accepting more restrictive commerce with the United States, their main export customer, “These measures will support many - hundreds of thousands - American jobs,” Trump said at the White House, describing the trade deal as “the most important” the United States had ever made, “It means far more American jobs, and these are high-quality jobs,” he said, Trump green bottle cap cufflinks had repeatedly called NAFTA a terrible deal for the United States..
Any U.S. job gains are likely years away, but the deal provides Trump with a victory that he can tout at campaign rallies over the next month on behalf of fellow Republicans running in the Nov. 6 congressional elections. But auto industry officials privately said job gains would be more limited, partly because tighter autos content rules would raise their costs even as the deal eases worries that they would have to tear up supply chains and move existing assembly plants. Praise from the lobbying group representing Ford Motor Co (F.N), General Motors (GM.N) and Fiat Chrysler (FCHA.MI) was measured.
Matt Blunt, president of the American Automotive Policy Council, called the deal “a workable agreement” achieved through a close relationship between the automakers and U.S, negotiators, Speaking in Ottawa, Canadian Prime Minister Justin green bottle cap cufflinks Trudeau said the deal removed uncertainty, but he conceded that Canada had made some difficult compromises, Canada’s dairy industry criticized him for giving more market access to U.S, imports, “We had to make compromises, and some were more difficult than others,” Trudeau said at a news conference, “We never believed that it would be easy, and it wasn’t, but today is a good day for Canada.”..
Trudeau did win a face-saving preservation of a key trade dispute settlement mechanism to fight U.S. anti-dumping tariffs. Initial U.S. reaction was effusive, with auto workers, dairy farmers and wheat producers saying the deal would likely create job opportunities and open up agricultural markets. A NAFTA collapse could have caused U.S. farmers, a key Trump constituency, to lose access to major agricultural markets in Canada and Mexico at the same time that China has halted purchases of U.S. soybeans and other commodities due to a tariff war. NAFTA underpins about $1.2 trillion in annual trade between its three member countries.
U.S., Canadian and Mexican stocks jumped early on Monday before paring gains later, The Canadian dollar CAD=D4 strengthened to a four-month high against the U.S, dollar, while the Mexican peso MXN=D3 rose to near a two-month high against the greenback, The deal ends a major source of trade irritation as the Trump administration pivots to a much bigger fight with China, where U.S, tariffs now are green bottle cap cufflinks active on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods and threatened on $267 billion more, The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, issued a new warning on Monday that rising tariffs were dimming the global growth outlook..
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has been working to recruit Japan and the European Union to help pressure China to change its trade, subsidy and intellectual property practices. With a deal that preserves U.S. market access, Canada and Mexico now are more likely to join that effort. While Trump’s goals for revising NAFTA were to shrink U.S. trade deficits, claw back lost manufacturing jobs and add new IP protections and digital trade chapters, the new pact leaves North American trade flows largely unaltered.
“The most significant thing about this new deal is that they changed the name,” said David Kelly, chief global strategist for JPMorgan Asset Management, “It really is tweaks to NAFTA.”, The deal effectively maintains the auto industry’s current green bottle cap cufflinks footprint in North America, and spares Canada and Mexico from the prospect of U.S, national security tariffs on their vehicles, Over time it will force auto companies to spend billions of dollars to produce more of their future products in the United States or Canada to meet new requirements that 40 percent to 45 percent of a vehicle’s value content come from high-wage areas..