President Donald Trump won't immediately terminate United States participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement, the White House said, after he spoke with the leaders of Mexico and Canada about ways to renegotiate the accord.
The White House said "the leaders agreed to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures", to work on renegotiating the deal.
The New York Times recently quoted an unnamed senior administration official saying that Trump is likely to sign an executive action that would begin the process of withdrawing the U.S. from NAFTA. "It is an honour to deal with both President Pena Nieto and Prime Minister Trudeau, and I believe that the end result will make all three countries stronger and better", Trump said according to a readout of the call issued by the White House. The decision capped a day of drama, with many news outlets reporting that Trump was seriously considering an executive action to withdraw from Nafta.
"It's been very, very bad for our companies and for our workers, and we're going to make some very big changes, or we are going to get rid of NAFTA once and for all", Trump said.
The administration appeared to be divided Wednesday over how and when to proceed, as officials balanced a newfound cautiousness with the desire to rack up accomplishments before Trump's 100th day on the job. Trump has repeatedly derided NAFTA as a "disaster" and claimed the deal resulted in millions of lost USA industrial jobs, mostly to Mexico.
"There was a rumour that there would be an executive order, just a rumour, and my practice is to comment on things we have actually done or are doing as opposed to commenting on rumours", Ross said.
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Still, about 14 million US jobs depend on trade with Mexico and Canada, according to the US Chamber of Commerce.
Trump told The Associated Press in an interview last week that he planned to either renegotiate or terminate NAFTA, which he and other critics blame for wiping out US manufacturing jobs because it allowed companies to move factories to Mexico to take advantage of low-wage labor.
During his run for office past year, Trump made his disdain for Nafta a central component of a populist message created to engender support among working class Americans, said the report.
Trump's top advisers had been embroiled in a debate over how aggressively to proceed on reshaping US participation in Nafta, with hard-liners favoring a threatened withdrawal as soon as this week and others advocating for a more measured approach to reopening negotiations with Canada and Mexico.
The letter spelled out few details and stuck with broad principles.
Reports Wednesday of the possible move drew objections from some in Congress, including Sen. However a withdrawal would "be disgraceful and a disaster".
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