{"id":17510,"date":"2018-10-05T18:25:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17510"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:25:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T18:25:05","slug":"is-the-new-trade-deal-replacing-nafta-a-win-win-win-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17510","title":{"rendered":"Is the new trade deal replacing NAFTA a win-win-win situation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"77.9836512262\">\n<p>US President Donald Trump has described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/mexico-canada-agree-trade-pact-replace-nafta-181001050623777.html\">the signing of a new free trade deal<\/a> with Mexico and Canada as signalling &#8220;a new dawn&#8221; for Americans and the return of the country as a &#8220;manufacturing powerhouse&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/nafta-usmca-canada-mexico-trade-deal-181001195545440.html\">USMCA<\/a>) updates and replaces the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which Trump had labelled a disaster and promised to cancel.<\/p>\n<p>After more than a year of talks and six weeks of intense discussions, the Canadian and US governments were able to overcome their differences late on Sunday with both sides conceding some ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chris Garcia &#8211; CEO of Vicar Financial and former deputy director at the US Department of Commerce under President Trump<\/p>\n<p>Colin Robertson &#8211; Former Canadian diplomat who was part of the team that negotiated the original NAFTA deal in 1994<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Gonzalez-Rojas &#8211; Professor of International Trade at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This episode of Inside Story originally aired on October 1, 2018.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has described the signing of a new free trade deal with Mexico and Canada as signalling &#8220;a new dawn&#8221; for Americans and the return of the country as a &#8220;manufacturing powerhouse&#8221;. The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) updates and replaces the nearly 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which Trump had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}