Republican senators knock USTR’s NAFTA approach as ‘outdated’

Three Republican senators last month ripped the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s approach to the North American Free Trade Agreement as “outdated” and called on President Trump enforce an “offensive” strategy that eschews trade barriers and pushes decreased regulation and easier permitting. “Rather than pursuing a defensive strategy that focuses solely on what other countries are doing to us, we need to develop a more comprehensive offensive U.S. strategy to strengthen our economy from within, to more effectively counter...