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Grassley: Trump should exit NAFTA if Dems want to re-open USMCA talks

January 10, 2019 at 7:42 PM
Incoming Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said on Wednesday that if Democrats insist on re-opening trade talks with Canada and Mexico, the president should "pull out" of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (OH) and Chris Murphy (CT) told Inside U.S. Trade last month that the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement needed improvement and that the parties should re-open the deal to make what they said were necessary changes. But Grassley said "if they are reaching the...


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