Manufacturing

NAFTA on the ballot, and now on the table

President Bill Clinton signs the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton pledged to renegotiate it, but the president-elect could go further. “He could withdraw the U.S. He could revert to a kind of bilateral Canada-only pact,” said Mark Muro of the Brookings Institution.
November 12, 2016 05:00 AM

If 2012 was a referendum on the auto bailout, 2016 proved to be a referendum on NAFTA, a pact that has been generally good for the security of the U.S. auto industry, but not so much for the people who used to work in it.

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