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NAFTA is dead; long live NAFTA

Given what we have witnessed these last months, NAFTA negotiators will struggle to keep the talks at the table and less in the realm of public, political mud wrestling that the White House seems to favour. At the end of the day, as some may speculate, perhaps the NAFTA we know becomes the 'non-NAFTA' and on its cover is called the 'North American Agreement on Economic Prosperity and Job Creation' eagerly marketed across the United States as a huge win for the president.

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