The tri-lateral trade agreement formerly known as N.A.F.T.A. that was changed a little and rechristened USMCA is up for annual review in two weeks. Canada has asked that the 16 year agreement be extended for another 16 years. If the Trump administration just says no to that, the treaty would expire in ten years. In my opinion that is what should occur.
Permanent foreign treaties in regard to trade are suspect generally, as conditions change sometimes pro, sometimes con in regard to advantage in trade. Canada, Mexico or The U.S.A. can quit the treaty with a six month in advance written notice. Taking the middle course seems reasonable. In ten years political leadership might discern if the treaty actually has done any good.
If the treaty is to be extended soon- and that seems rash, the administration should require that Canadians and Mexicans adopt a second amendment style law allowing their citizens the basic right to keep and bear arms in order to form well organized militias. Those repressive legal absences of gun ownership rights cause too much criminal organization to flourish in the wake of the asymmetry between criminal gang political and social hegemony over gunless citizens of Mexico. Canada continues to have too many vestiges of royalty and seems unfriendly to U.S. democracy now and then. Recently Canada has joined with Germany to promote war in Ukraine against Russia and that is directly harmful to U.S. and global trade interests. The only stable solution for ending the war and promoting a return of Russia to normal world diplomatic and trade relations is for Russia to own Ukraine east of the Dnepro River.
Bureaucrats sometimes need meaningful work. Because of Canada’s weird Euro based political ideas it may not be good to have a trade agreement generally with it, and instead utilize traditional methods of determining what should or should not cross the border in either direction, and reduce the free trade agreement to one with Mexico; if Mexico allows liberal gun ownership laws to grow letting the citizens take back their towns from drug cartel pragmatic power incrementally.
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