Tag: NAFTA

President Donald Trump visited Green Bay Wisconsin last night and held one of his rallies as part of the 2020 Presidential Campaign. After railing on about how Harley-Davidson is being treated unfairly in the world market…he proceeded on about NAFTA. Both (Senator Bernie) Sanders and Trump are expected to run…

No, really, this is a serious question. The president denounced NAFTA and praised his new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement ( USMCA) to the heavens. But the ink on the agreement is long since dried but nobody…not Canada…not Mexico…and not the United States has approved it yet. I mean it was signed…

The trade pact being negotiated between the United States and Mexico gets a bit convoluted when it comes to North American content of cars manufactured in Mexico. The numbers are aimed at increasing content manufactured in the United States. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Monday that Mexico…

President Donald Trump went to Helsinki Finland and met privately, for two hours, with Russian President Vladimir Putin for his employee performance review. President Trump is making great progress on completing President Putin’s agenda: 1: Disrupt the European Union by supporting and undermining Brexit at the same time. 2: Threatening…

Some of the current headlines talk about the issues surrounding the ‘renegotiation’ or lack there off of NAFTA. I haven’t read much about it…I am not in the mood to wade through the minutia and policy. But NPR said that President Trump was talking about negotiating with only Canada and…

Since mankind’s very first attempt at commerce when Ogg traded five perch to Brux for two venison steaks, we’ve all known that as the demand for a good or service increases, the price increases until the supply meets the demand. Doesn’t usually matter what we are talking about: gold, real…

Trust me on this…it’s not because he’s actually read them and found them lacking. It’s simply because he didn’t personally negotiate the agreements and therefore without the master negotiator…well…they just aren’t good enough. Except they are…and he’s not what he thinks he is…his skills if he ever actually had any…have…

The opening line of an article in the business section of this morning’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just about says it all: The timing may seem less than ideal, but the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. will lead a trade mission to Mexico in mid-June. So the lieutenant governor is going to…

This story hits very close to home for me. I grew up on what had been my grandfather’s farm in Pewaukee. My uncle farmed it for a while before he started renting it to the neighbor up the road. Two other uncles and several cousins were dairy farmers. Another uncle…

There are a couple of things around NAFTA that failed to come out during the campaign. First, candidate Trump failed to mention that Canada made up one third of the partners in NAFTA…and in many cases free trade with Mexico and Canada is very beneficial for some American producers. Like…