Trumps NAFTA strategy

[bucket]

Which explains why Brandt is getting a foothold in the states....and is an easy price increase as well for their products....

We have fools running this country.

[macdon02]

Potash will move south and phosphate north. Car parts..... Not so much

[errolanderson]

Even if Trump gives written 6-month notice to abandon NAFTA, it may not happen. Loss of NAFTA would be a big hit to the American Midwest (Trump's voter heartland) . . . and mid-terms are coming up in November. U.S. companies would be hit by increased costs. This has to get through Congress . . . .

More talk-the-talk, then walk-the-walk (IMO) . . . .

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I maintain that the NAFTA issue is more about telling the masses what they want to hear, than any practical application. Who honestly believes that a socialist overtaxed, and over regulated could sparsely populated country is taking jobs away from the US? But it plays well with his base, and will continue to until the next election.

[ajl]

I don't understand why the end of NAFTA would hurt the US midwest. Generally the US benefits from trade restriction and they know it. I know a lot of processed food in imported from the US midwest into Canada but other than car parts what else do they export here? Car parts would still move like today because it is largely an exchange trade anyways. Linnamar has production facilities in the US already (make the Harvestec corn head) so they can move MacDon down there.

[farming101]

I don't understand why the end of NAFTA would hurt the US midwest. Generally the US benefits from trade restriction and they know it. I know a lot of processed food in imported from the US midwest into Canada but other than car parts what else do they export here? Car parts would still move like today because it is largely an exchange trade anyways. Linnamar has production facilities in the US already (make the Harvestec corn head) so they can move MacDon down there.

John Deere, CNH, Agco, Monsanto are a few familiar names from the midwest that do a little business in Canada

[Klause]

John Deere, CNH, Agco, Monsanto are a few familiar names from the midwest that do a little business in Canada

Deere and agco wouldn't give a shit. Neither would Monsanto.


Monsanto has Canadian headquarters. So does cnh in Saskatoon.


Deere and agco charge you 5% more for duties and away you go.

[DaneG]

US exports to NAFTA countries

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/nafta-by-commodity-and-by-state-in-2016?utm_source=Market+Intel+Subscribers&utm_campa ign=0c7e3413cd-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_ter m=0_8791233023-0c7e3413cd-260808397

[burnt]

I agree, we need professional negotiators.

Oh don't worry, we have sent our best negotiators - our very best SJW's! Bargaining for non-gender labeled bathrooms...

Sock boy and tear-lady, surely they are more than qualified to talk business with a group of business sharks...

We're screwed and it's going to hurt a lot more than is advertised. China objected to having another nation tamper with their sovereignty and the US does too. How strange.

That's an unpopular approach when you're a superpower, let alone a relative nobody.


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