Trump's new threat to NAFTA partners: Give better deal or face steel tariffs
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump threw a wrench Monday into long-stalled regional trade talks, saying that Mexico and Canada could avoid planned new tariffs on aluminum and steel if they agreed to make concessions to Washington in negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Trump has frequently threatened to withdraw from NAFTA if its two pact partners don't accede to U.S. demands for a more favorable deal.
But on Monday, the president suggested that Canada and Mexico could avoid the tariffs if they made concessions in negotiations to rewrite the almost quarter-century-old agreement. The three sides wrapped up the seventh round of talks in Mexico City on Monday with little progress on
