Trump may seek separate trade deals with Canada, Mexico: U.S. adviser

[demmiblue]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump may seek separate talks with Canada and Mexico in a bid to get individual trade deals with the two countries, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Tuesday.

“He is very seriously contemplating kind of a shift in the NAFTA negotiations. His preference now, and he asked me to convey this, is to actually negotiate with Mexico and Canada separately,” Kudlow said in an interview with Fox News.

“He may be moving quickly toward these bilateral discussions instead of as a whole.”

The United States, Canada and Mexico have been in months of negotiations to rework the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has long criticized as having harmed the United States economically.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-trade-nafta/trump-may-seek-separate-trade-deals-with-canada-mexico-u-s-adviser-idUSKCN1J11LW

[HopeAgain]

1. Nothing more than a dog and pony show

All Trump wants is to stand at a podium in three years and claim he made "beautiful deals, the best deals." without being tide down by reality.

[notdarkyet]

2. Why would they want to deal with trump when he cut them off. It is just him pushing his

Weight around to make deals . I don’t think anyone trusts him or wants to deal with him anymore. The world is big enough they can ignore us. We are cutting our own throats. But that’s how trump deals. His way or no way.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

3. Who would negotiate with a man who has a history of breaking agreements?

His "break it, don't fix it" approach to everything is going to make it difficult -- if not impossible -- to get meaningful trade deals done. "My way or the highway" is a lousy attitude to carrying into international relations.

[duforsure]

4. Why would they

Believe any deal he says he'll honor, coming from a serial liar like he is. They would be stupid to make any deal with this guy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Safe to say both Nieto and Trudeau hate the Madman's guts now.

So...good luck with that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. because his deplorables hate Mexicans for their skin color

so he wants to be nastier to them.

[Corgigal]

7. Contemplating

Trump doesn't do this at all. He's all feels and should have outgrown that in high school.
Lucky us.

[Javaman]

8. given the orange assholes psychotic mental state...

I believe he is doing this because, like he deals with people, he will at some point, play countries against one another.

with large trade deals involving many nations, he can't do that.

given his history with how he runs his failed mafia-like empire, I expect nothing less from him.