Complicating the talks on the future of NAFTA: chief critic Donald Trump's assertion that the pact short-changes the US

摘要

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which came into force in 1994, created what is now the world's biggest free-trade bloc. But the three-nation pact has come in for criticism in recent years. A first round of talks on its future, convened in Washington on 16 August, began inauspiciously with US President Donald Trump's declaration that NAFTA had "fundamentally failed".