Even after twenty years, the North American Free Trade Agreement remains highly controversial. Donald Trump claims that NAFTA has “destroyed this country economically,” apparently unaware that the U.S. economy is still pretty fantastic. He has promised to pull out of the landmark free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada unless he can renegotiate it.
Hillary Clinton has also promised to renegotiate NAFTA. Trump has erroneously claimed that Clinton only came out against NAFTA after he made an issue of it. She made the same promise during her 2008 presidential campaign. Trumps also claims (much less erroneously) that Clinton will probably back out of any promise to renegotiate NAFTA after she’s elected.