Baldwin supports new North American trade agreement

January 7, 2020 10:21 am Leave a comment

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said Tuesday she'll vote for President Donald Trump's new North American free-trade agreement.

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After a year, it’s time for Congress to act on trade pact

November 4, 2019 3:20 pm Leave a comment

Vice President Mike Pence answers questions from the media while appearing with Republican Senate candidate Leah Vukmir during a stop in Milwaukee on Thursday. Pence was in Milwaukee that night for a closed-door fundraiser to raise money in Wisconsin for Vukmir, who faces the Democrat Tammy Baldwin in the November election. (Rick Wood/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP)

Vice President Mike Pence came to Kenosha County last week to push Congress to vote on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which was signed in November 2018. It’s President Donald Trump’s plan to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement ...

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Pence pushes trade deal in Wisconsin, denounces Democrats

October 24, 2019 11:07 am Leave a comment

Vice President Mike Pence says during a stop in Wisconsin that pressure should be put on Democrats to pass a new trade deal.

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Trump: Trade deal returns US to ‘manufacturing powerhouse’ (UPDATE)

October 1, 2018 11:29 am Leave a comment

President Donald Trump announces a revised North American free trade deal, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Monday. The new deal, reached just before a midnight deadline imposed by the U.S., will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA for short. It replaces the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Donald Trump had called a job-killing disaster. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated revisions to the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, saying it would help the United States return to being a "manufacturing powerhouse" and vowing to sign the agreement by late November.

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Preliminary US-Mexico trade deal leaves trail of uncertainty

August 28, 2018 10:23 am Leave a comment

President Donald Trump talks on the phone with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, in the Oval Office on Monday. Trump is announcing a trade "understanding" with Mexico that could lead to an overhaul of the North American Free Trade Agreement. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Donald Trump's declaration of victory on Monday in reaching a preliminary deal with Mexico to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement raised at least as many questions as it answered.

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View from around the state: NAFTA has been good for state, region

January 8, 2018 11:44 am Leave a comment

For Wisconsin, and southeastern Wisconsin in particular, the new year brings hopes for strong, if not spectacular gains on the economy and jobs front based in large part on the plans moving ahead for the Foxconn campus here in Racine County.

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Fine speeches over: Drive to ease NAFTA’s effects on workers begins

August 15, 2017 2:05 pm Leave a comment

Of all the trade deals he lambasted on the campaign trail as threats to American workers, President Donald Trump reserved particular scorn for one: The North American Free Trade Agreement.

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