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Midterm elections could realign USMCA, other trade priorities

November 2, 2018 at 5:36 PM
President Trump's nearly two years in office have upended free trade orthodoxy -- he has imposed tariffs, threatened to withdraw from various multilateral agreements, targeted trade relationships with longtime U.S. allies -- and thrust trade into the limelight on the midterm campaign trail. But after the dust has settled on Tuesday, the landscape could look quite different. Observers see the potential for a greater check on the president's powers and a bumpy ride to passage of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement...


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