Outside views: Gaming out the potential for a protracted fight over USMCA

President Trump and his trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, are ignoring “the lessons of the past quarter-century on trade” by planning a NAFTA withdrawal while the fate of USMCA in Congress remains uncertain, according to an analysis by longtime trade analyst Gary Hufbauer. Writing for the Peterson Institute for International Economics , where he is a senior fellow, Hufbauer cites Lighthizer's insistence that the text of USMCA can't be reopened, as well as Trump's insistence on withdrawal to force lawmakers' hands,...