<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><i class="">Informal comments by President yesterday. Expect formal notice at any time now...</i><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-nafta-idUSKBN156128" class="">http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-nafta-idUSKBN156128</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="article-info" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><span class="article-section" style="color: rgb(255, 128, 0); font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.6em; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/news/archive/worldNews" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(255, 128, 0); cursor: pointer;" class="">WORLD NEWS</a></span> <span class="divider" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-size: 1.4em; vertical-align: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 3px;">|</span> <span class="timestamp" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); display: inline-block; font-size: 1.4em; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: inherit;">Sun Jan 22, 2017 | 10:27pm EST</span></div><h1 class="article-headline" style="margin: 9px 0px 18px; font-size: 4em; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1em;">Trump to begin renegotiating NAFTA pact soon with Mexico, Canada</h1><div class=""><div id="article-byline" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px 80px; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""><span class="author" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.5em;">By <a href="http://www.reuters.com/journalists/ayesha-rascoe" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); cursor: pointer; font-family: knowledge-medium, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;" class="">Ayesha Rascoe</a></span> <span class="location" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 1.5em; text-transform: uppercase; margin-left: 3px;"><span class="divider" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px); margin-right: 3px;">|</span> WASHINGTON</span></div><span id="midArticle_0" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="article-prime" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); padding: 0px;" class="">U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he plans talks soon with the leaders of Canada and Mexico to begin renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).</p></span><span id="midArticle_1" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">"We will be starting negotiations having to do with NAFTA," Trump said at a swearing-in ceremony for his top White House advisers. "We are going to start renegotiating on NAFTA, on immigration and on security at the border."</p><span id="midArticle_2" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trump pledged during his presidential campaign that if elected he would renegotiate the NAFTA trade pact to provide more favorable terms to the United States.</p><div class="teads-inread" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; -webkit-transition: height 0.5s; transition: height 0.5s; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; position: relative;" class=""><div class="teads-player" id="teads1" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"></div></div></div><div class="teads-inread" style="overflow: hidden; height: 0px; -webkit-transition: height 0.5s; transition: height 0.5s; box-sizing: content-box; font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px !important; position: relative;" class=""><div class="teads-player" id="teads0" style="margin-bottom: 0px !important;"></div></div></div><span id="midArticle_3" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">NAFTA, which took effect in 1994, and other trade deals became lightning rods for voter anger in the U.S. industrial heartland states that swept Trump to power this month.</p><span id="midArticle_4" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Canada's ambassador to the United States said it was clear the Trump team were concerned above all about trade deficits with Mexico and China.</p><span id="midArticle_5" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="first-article-divide article-divide" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">"I don't think Canada is the focus at all," David MacNaughton told reporters in Calgary, Alberta, ahead of a two-day government retreat focused on how to handle the new Trump administration.</p><span id="midArticle_6" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trade experts, academics and government officials say Canada and Mexico will also seek tough concessions and that NAFTA's zero-tariff rate would be extremely difficult to alter. Any renegotiation would likely take several years, they say.</p><span id="midArticle_7" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trump said he would be meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to begin work on overhauling the deal. </p><span id="midArticle_8" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span class="second-article-divide article-divide" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;"></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">He praised Pena Nieto, who has faced low popularity in Mexico due to corruption scandals and rising inflation.</p><span id="midArticle_9" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">"The president has been really amazing," Trump said. "I think we are going to have a very good result for Mexico, and the United States, and everybody involved." </p><span id="midArticle_10" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Critics of Pena Nieto say he lacks a clear plan to counter Trump's calls to limit trade and deport illegal immigrants.</p><span id="midArticle_11" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><span style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Trump has said little about what improvements he wants, apart from halting the migration of U.S. factories and jobs to Mexico.</p><span id="midArticle_12" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">Since winning the Nov. 8 election, Trump has singled out and threatened to impose tariffs on U.S. companies that move any production to Mexico. </p><span id="midArticle_13" style="font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10px;" class=""></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px 80px; font-size: 1.7em; line-height: 24px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: knowledge-reg, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px;" class="">He also intends to build a wall along the U.S. southern border to deter illegal immigration and insisted that Mexico will pay for it.</p></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>