Sherrod Brown: Trump's new NAFTA will face strong Dem opposition
Source: The Hill
Sherrod Brown: Trumps new NAFTA will face strong Dem opposition
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 02/12/19 11:45 AM EST
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), a likely presidential candidate in 2020 and a leading voice on trade issues, predicted Tuesday that President Trumps update of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will stall in Congress.
I dont see evidence that its going to pass, Brown said at a breakfast with reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. I dont now what Republicans are going to do. I know that there are few Democrats in the Senate that support it.
Brown says he cant support the deal unless its labor protection provisions are substantially strengthened.
The new accord is supposed to fulfill President Trumps 2016 campaign promise to replace NAFTA with a better trade deal.
Brown calls it NAFTA 1.6, alluding to what he sees as the many similarities between the landmark 1994 North American treaty and Trumps trade agreement.
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