Trump signs new Nafta but congressional hurdle remains

Josh Wingrove, Jenny Leonard and Nick Wadhams

11/30/2018

NEW AGREEMENT: Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's president, from front left, U.S. president Donald Trump, and Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) as Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, Mexico's secretary of economy, from back left, Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, and Chrystia Freeland, Canada's minister of foreign affairs, stand at the G-20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday Nov. 30, 2018. The U.S., Canada and Mexico are set to sign their new trade deal Friday following a year of intense negotiations to revamp the continent's free trade zone - after President Trump threats to kill it. BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/SARAH PABST — NEW AGREEMENT: Enrique Pena Nieto, Mexico's president, from front left, U.S. president Donald Trump, and Justin Trudeau, Canada's prime minister, sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal, Mexico's secretary of economy, from back left, Robert Lighthizer, U.S. trade representative, and Chrystia Freeland, Canada's minister of foreign affairs, stand at the G-20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018. / BLOOMBERG NEWS FILE PHOTO/SARAH PABST

NEW YORK - The United States, Canada and Mexico signed a new trade deal championed by President Donald Trump to replace the quarter-century-old Nafta pact, capping a year of intense negotiations and offering a glimmer of certainty amid rising global tensions over trade. Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena…

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