Sen. Brown Calls on Trump to Renegotiate NAFTA
Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, on Nov. 14 called for president-elect Donald Trump to make good on his campaign promise to renegotiate NAFTA within his first 100 days in office and plans to “hold Trump accountable” for following through, he said in a statement (here). An amended NAFTA should erase investor-state dispute settlement, rewrite automobile and steel rules of origin, and make “sure all companies and countries are on a level playing-field so corporations don’t have incentive to ship jobs to Mexico in order to pay workers less,” Brown said in a statement. Brown opposed NAFTA in 1993 and the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2005.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would be willing to renegotiate NAFTA after Trump takes office (see 1611100040), while Mexican officials have expressed a willingness to modernize, but not renegotiate, the pact, according to media reports (here). “I am calling on President-Elect Trump to make good on his promise to Ohioans and offering to work with him to form a trade policy that protects American workers and creates Ohio jobs,” Brown said. “I have spent my career fighting for a trade policy that puts American workers ahead of corporate profits. I’ve stood up to Presidents of both parties, and now I’m willing to work with President Trump to hold him accountable for keeping his promises and make sure we get this right.”