Trump and leaders of Mexico and Canada sign new trade pact to revise NAFTA, but uncertainty remains
by Eli Stokols and Don Lee, Los Angeles Times
Nov 30, 2018
4 minutes
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - President Donald Trump and the leaders of Canada and Mexico signed a revision of the quarter-century-old North American Free Trade Agreement early Friday, but their ceremony did not disguise the tensions remaining or lessen the doubts of whether a new Congress would approve the pact.
At the event, on the sidelines of an international summit opening in Buenos Aires, Trump touted the hard-fought deal as "a truly groundbreaking achievement" and proudly held up the signed agreement for the cameras at the conclusion of a short ceremony. With Democrats taking control of the House in January, its
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