‘It’s just a report’: U.S. business groups play down coming analysis of new NAFTA deal
Daniel Dale, Toronto Star, Washington Bureau Chief Thursday, April 4, 2019WASHINGTON—A coalition of businesses pushing Congress to approve the new trade deal with Canada and Mexico says the public shouldn’t put too much stock in this month’s official estimate of the impact of the deal on the U.S. economy.“It’s just a report,” Rick Dearborn, executive […]
Trump abandons threat of auto tariffs on Canada, saying it was just a ‘negotiating point’
DANIEL DALE, Toronto Star Oct. 2, 2018 WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump says he is now free to acknowledge that he had only threatened to impose tariffs on Canadian-made cars “as a negotiating point” in NAFTA talks. “I’m not using tariffs. I used tariffs to get the deal, because if they weren’t willing to make a […]
