To free traders, the new Nafta is a bitter pill to swallow. It introduces managed trade to autos, waters down the foreign rights of corporations and normalizes national security as a pretext for tariffs. Many of its improvements, such as on intellectual property and labor rights, were already in the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, from which President Donald Trump has withdrawn.
But the verdict is different when judged by a different standard—how the world’s trading system survives the most protectionist U.S. administration…
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New Nafta Shows Limits of ‘America First’
10/03/2018
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