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Leaders from Canada, Mexico and U.S. send 'NAFTA 2.0' to lawmakers

The trade deal fulfills U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.

North American leaders at the signing ceremony for a new trade pact
North American leaders at the signing ceremony for a new trade pact (AN/Shealah Craighead)

North American leaders signed a new trade pact that the Trump administration claimed was a major accomplishment but analysts said was more of the same.

The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement resulted from U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump had described the NAFTA free-trade zone as “perhaps the worst trade deal ever made.”

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