Donald Trump has gone squishy by stages on the North American Free Trade Agreement, which he once called "the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere." In April, aides persuaded him not to abrogate the 23-year-old trade pact with Canada and Mexico. On July 17, moderates scored another victory: The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released objectives for renegotiating Nafta that aim to tune it up, not gut it. "Overall this looks like a Nafta modernization. It's not like the whole of Nafta is up for grabs," says Antonio Ortiz-Mena, a senior adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group, a Washington diplomacy advisory firm, who previously headed the economic affairs section of the Mexican Embassy.
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