{"id":16544,"date":"2020-07-01T22:15:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16544"},"modified":"2020-07-01T21:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:16:50","slug":"nafta-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/07\/01\/nafta-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"NAFTA is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43192\" title=\"The White House\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/whitehouse-logo-200x136.jpg\" alt=\"The White House\" width=\"200\" height=\"136\"><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong> &#8211; For over 25 years, Republicans and Democrats alike griped about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Because of its weak, voluntary labor and environmental \u201crules,\u201d NAFTA cost America millions of jobs and devastated working-class communities.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPresident Trump was one of NAFTA\u2019s earliest critics as far back as the 1990s. Like former President Obama, candidate Trump promised to renegotiate NAFTA if he was elected. Unlike President Obama, Donald Trump kept that promise after taking office.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_493926\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/President-Donald-Trump-signs-the-United-States-Mexico-Canada-Trade-Agreement.jpg\"  class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-493926\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-493926\" title=\"President Donald Trump signs the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. (White House)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/President-Donald-Trump-signs-the-United-States-Mexico-Canada-Trade-Agreement-480x320.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump signs the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. (White House)\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-493926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. (White House)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAs of today, NAFTA is gone\u2014replaced by the far stronger United States\u2013Mexico\u2013Canada Agreement, or USMCA.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=992e56f7e9&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Flashback: \u201cWe\u2019re finally ending the NAFTA nightmare\u201d<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe USMCA is a complete overhaul of North American trade, with modern, rebalanced rules for business and investment. The International Trade Commission predicts that the USMCA will create up to 589,000 new American jobs and have the most positive impact on U.S. jobs and wages of any trade agreement that the Commission has ever reviewed.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe new agreement is also a major bipartisan victory, incorporating ideas from both Democrats and Republicans to get the best deal possible for America\u2019s workers.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cThe strong and overwhelming support the USMCA received from both parties in Congress\u2014as well as from labor unions, business organizations, and champions of agriculture\u2014shows just how much this trade agreement will benefit all Americans,\u201d President Trump said in a statement today.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=4bf198891b&amp;e=6b36942091\" >Secretary Perdue: USMCA changes things by leveling the playing field<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nStarting today, the USMCA will begin addressing longstanding trade imbalances across American industries. For example, in the automotive sector alone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>75 percent of qualifying vehicles must now be genuinely produced in North America, reducing the motive to outsource parts to low-cost countries<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>40-45 percent of a vehicle must be built by workers making an average of at least $16 an hour, preserving more jobs for American workers<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>$34 billion in new automotive manufacturing investments are expected in the United States over the next 5 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThat\u2019s just one industry. USMCA is leveling the playing field for American farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, and businesses all across our economy, too.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[470center]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe United States has the best labor force of any country on Earth. Our workers don\u2019t ask for much\u2014only the opportunity to compete fairly for good jobs at honest wages. With NAFTA in the rearview mirror, a new era in American trade begins today.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cI keep my promises,\u201d President Trump says.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=96e5ff01b6&amp;e=6b36942091\" >See President Trump\u2019s statement on the end of NAFTA.<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSecretary Perdue: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whitehouse.us19.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=4da4828d48b4efa4fc1138955&amp;id=b102c90c5e&amp;e=6b36942091\" >USMCA is a huge win for American agriculture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &#8211; For over 25 years, Republicans and Democrats alike griped about the North American Free Trade Agreement. Because of its weak, voluntary labor and environmental \u201crules,\u201d NAFTA cost America millions of jobs and devastated working-class communities. &nbsp; President Trump was one of NAFTA\u2019s earliest critics as far back as the 1990s. Like former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[3522,855,3690,12064,3352,13114,13115,2106,6487,2038,13116,13117,3338],"class_list":["post-16544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-jobs","tag-nafta","tag-north-american-free-trade-agreement","tag-republicans","tag-u-s-president","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-mexico-canada-agreement","tag-usmca","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16545,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16544\/revisions\/16545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}