Trade Agreement: Rust-Belt States and Bill Clinton

trade agreement: Photograph AFP/Getty America neighbour to the south has most to lose from the new Republican president, according to The Guardian. Trump message to blue-collar voters in the rust-belt states was that US manufacturing jobs have migrated across the Rio Grande as a result of the North American Free Trade Agreement signed by Bill Clinton in the early 1990s. Mexico Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Mexican man reads a paper emblazoned with news on Donald Trump. Trump has said that if he cannot renegotiate Nafta he will pull out of the free trade deal altogether. If implemented in full, the impact on the Mexican economy of these policies would be profound. He has threatened to put a 35% tariff on some Mexican goods and pledged to close the sweatshops in Mexico that undercut American workers . In addition, he has said he would round up and send home up illegal immigrants living and working in America, 5 million of whom are thought to be Mexican. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.