NAFTA

The Republican plan to ram through NAFTA 2.0 before the Democrats take over is falling apart.

They warn the incoming Democratic House may make passage "significantly more difficult."

The new House Democrats have to figure out how to square opposition to Trump with skepticism about free trade.

The USMCA is more than just a rebranded NAFTA. It's the shape of things to come.

Officials say the question will have to be addressed separately from the USMCA.

Today on the Daily Standard Podcast, reporter Haley Byrd and deputy online editor Jim Swift join host Charlie Sykes to discuss the latest with the Kavanaugh nomination and Trump's recently inked NAFTA remix. Will the "USMCA" get a vote in Congress?

Poised to miss a key deadline for a renegotiated NAFTA, the White House threatens to leave Canada in the cold.

Ways and Means members suggest a trade deal with Mexico might not be legal under fast-track authority.

After President Donald Trump threatened members of Congress over the weekend that he would “simply terminate” the North American Free Trade Agreement if Congress interferes with his ongoing trade negotiations with Canada and Mexico, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady avoided taking a firm…

With Bloomberg denying, could it be someone within the West Wing?

Hosted by Charlie Sykes.

The president threatened to leave Canada behind in renegotiating NAFTA. But lawmakers doubt he’s allowed to do that.

Hardly an overhaul, but it could have been much worse.

The president campaigned on the idea that the pact was a “total disaster.” Can he do better?

Paul Ryan's deadline fast approaches.

“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” wrote Shakespeare. Although the odds that President Trump was reminded of that observation when re-reading The Tempest must be regarded as low, they are somewhat higher that he might at one time have stumbled across the modern variant, about…

President Trump signed a controversial order implementing heavy tariffs on imported steel and aluminum Thursday, calling the action “a matter of necessity for our security” and saying it would help to revitalize fading American industry.

For recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a sigh of relief: The Supreme Court on Monday effectively upheld a lower court’s ruling that the White House cannot end DACA, which provides legal status to people brought to America illegally as children, until challenges to the…

Trade experts, lawmakers, and investors panicked across the board Wednesday night after Reuters reported Canadian officials were increasingly convinced President Donald Trump is planning to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

What happened to Trumpism? Sure, we still get the oh-so-Trumpy tweets, but many of the issues that Donald Trump ran on have been cast to the wayside in the 11 months (it hasn’t even been a year yet!?) of his presidency.

President Trump came home from his Asia trip with a significant political conundrum on his hands: What to do about Roy Moore. For days, the White House has been publicly cautious in rendering any judgment on the credible sexual misconduct allegations against Moore, even as Republican senators and…

Canada’s NAFTA negotiator has now demanded that new chapters be inserted to the agreement which reflect the Trudeau government’s “commitment to gender equality and . . . improving our relationship with indigenous peoples.”

Circuses feature sideshows and main events. So it is with the circus that performs daily at the Trump White House when it comes to trade policy. The sideshow currently on offer is the renegotiation of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that creates a more-or-less free trade area…

Must free trade come with social justice? That's what Canada is saying, reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown reports."[A]s we head into NAFTA renegotiations this week, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his administration want to expand the rules to include sections on gender issues, climate…

The representatives from Canada and Mexico who came to Washington on Wednesday to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement were greeted by U.S. officials taking a hard line on negotiations.

There is no lack of drama in the Trump administration when it comes to trade policy. The ingredients are there: interesting players, uncertainty of outcome, the rise to and fall from favor. The principal actor and star, a man who brooks no rival for the spotlight is, of course, President Donald J.…

There is no lack of drama in the Trump administration when it comes to trade policy. The ingredients are there: interesting players, uncertainty of outcome, the rise to and fall from favor. The principal actor and star, a man who brooks no rival for the spotlight is, of course, President Donald J.…

Is the administration preparing for something with North Korea? That was the impression of many in Washington ahead of a Wednesday afternoon White House briefing of nearly all 100 U.S. senators by military and national security officials. Those briefing the senators included Secretary of State Rex…

That's the easy part. President-elect Donald Trump went on YouTube to announce two of his goals. The first was to show the print and television moguls who have been coming and going from Trump Tower in an effort to work out a modus vivendi with the president-elect that he doesn't need them to get…

Hillary Clinton says she comes from “the Clinton school of economics." It's her way of identifying with her husband, Bill Clinton, and suggesting that if elected president she would duplicate the economic success of his presidency.