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<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Curiouser and curiouser.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:19.5pt;background:white">
<b class=""><span style="font-size:22.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333" class="">Trump: 'I wouldn't mind' separate deals with Canada and Mexico<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><u class=""><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">June 01, 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">President Trump on Friday said he “wouldn't mind” signing separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico instead of a new NAFTA.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">“These are two very different countries,” he told reporters at the White House, resurrecting the idea of two bilaterals after months of intense trilateral
negotiations that Canadian leaders thought were nearly complete as recently as this week.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">“I wouldn't mind seeing NAFTA, where you go by a different name, where you make a separate deal with Canada and a separate deal with Mexico, because
you're talking about a very different two countries,” he said. “But I wouldn't mind seeing a separate deal with Canada, where you have one type of product, so to speak, and a separate deal with Mexico.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">Lamenting, as he often does, what he believes is a massive trade imbalance with Mexico and Canada, Trump said “it's not going to happen like that
anymore.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">“Mexico has taken our car companies, a big percentage of them, and we can't do that,” he said.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">American workers, the president said, agree with him on trade – and, he contended, the “stock market” does as well.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">Trump also decried what he said were uneven tariffs charged by the European Union and the U.S., saying he planned to ensure reciprocity: “You're
going to charge five times, we're going to charge five times.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">“It hasn't been done. No other president every brought it up. And it's going to be done now,” Trump insisted.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">As for U.S. allies' response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, Trump said “they take advantage of us on trade.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">“We're going to straighten out trade,” he added. “Trade is going to be easy.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class=""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" class="">Asked about his plans for the weekend at Camp David, the president said he would be making calls to foreign leaders, adding: “<u class="">I'm negotiating
trade deals</u>.”<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">Michael F. Dolan, J.D.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">Legislative Representative<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">International Brotherhood of Teamsters<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">Desk 202.624.6891<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">Fax 202.624.8973<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Bell MT","serif"" class="">Cell 202.437.2254<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p>
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