<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/330811-trump-calls-mexican-canadian-leaders-on-nafta" class="">http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/330811-trump-calls-mexican-canadian-leaders-on-nafta</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="title" id="page-title" style="font-size: 54px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Graphik Web', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(44, 44, 44);">Trump tells Mexican, Canadian leaders he won't terminate NAFTA right now</h1></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="submitted-wrp" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 223, 228); font-family: 'Graphik Web', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="submitted-by" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; font-family: 'Graphik Web', Helvetica, Arial, 'san serif'; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); margin: 0px; border-bottom-style: none !important;">BY VICKI NEEDHAM - <span class="submitted-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; border-bottom-style: none !important;">04/26/17 10:42 PM EDT</span></span></div><div class="blogs-social-wrp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: right; font-size: 0px; line-height: 1; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 223, 228); border-top-width: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 21px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; font-family: 'Graphik Web', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"></div></div><div class=""><div class="field-label-hidden field-name-body field field-type-text-with-summary"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="">President
Trump told Mexican and Canadian leaders on Wednesday that he will
renegotiate a trade deal between the countries, instead of scrapping the
three-nation pact. </div><div class=""> </div><div class="">Trump spoke with Mexico’s
President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
to assure them that he will move forward to rework the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) amid reports that the U.S. wants to
withdraw from the 23-year-old deal. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div>“President
Trump agreed not to terminate NAFTA at this time and the leaders agreed
to proceed swiftly, according to their required internal procedures, to
enable the renegotiation of the NAFTA deal to the benefit of all three
countries,” according to a readout of the calls provided by the White
House. <p class="">Trump said, “it is my privilege to bring NAFTA up to date
through renegotiation” and pledged “the end result will make all three
countries stronger and better,” according to the White House. </p><p class="">Word
came out earlier Wednesday that the Trump administration is weighing
whether to issue an executive order that would eventually lead the
United States to leave the 1990s-era trade pact with Mexico and Canada.</p><p class=""> It was the second time in two days that Trump and Trudeau made contact. </p><p class="">The
Canadian statement Wednesday was more vague than the one released after
Tuesday night’s call on softwood lumber and dairy, as tensions over
trade grow between the two partners. </p><p class="">“The prime minister spoke this evening with President Trump of the United States,” the Canadian government said in a statement.</p><p class="">“The
two leaders continued their dialogue on Canada-U.S. trade relations,
with the prime minister reinforcing the importance of stability and job
growth in our trade relations.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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