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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Um, there were only three countries involved in NAFTA, what other two members are you magically involving in this ?
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Wow. Just wow.
There are three countries involved in NAFTA. They are Canada, United States, and Mexico. The United States has (or had) tariffs on two of the three countries involved in NAFTA.
Can you tell me which countries we had tariffs on? I'll give you a hint.... One of them is NOT the United States.
The correct answer is the United States had tariffs on Canada and Mexico. If you got the answer correct, you get a gold star!!!
Do the see the logic here? Trump was trying to get his new NAFTA passed, but there was no way in the world Canada or Mexico would approve it being as we had tariffs in place.
But it's a moot issue. The new NAFTA might pass or it might not, but all they did was take the same framework of the original NAFTA and made a few changes.
Just to give you an example of the changes, under the new plan employees who make automobiles must make $16/hour (or face a small tariff). The concept here is to make it less profitable to make cars in Mexico, or Canada. But the truth is the tariff is small and the costs will be passed onto Americans. You had a problem with math earlier, so me explain it you in simple terms....
Cars will still be made in Canada and Mexico, but will cost us more.
But Trump really needs a "win" to make it look like an accomplishment.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/phillev.../#7a4d48ef5d0c