Important read!-----Reforming North American Trade - American Thinker

Rather than worrying about whether the USMCA will last past 2036, America’s businesses need to focus on whether they will. - John F. Di Leo 

NAFTA dates to the late 1980s and early 1990s, when we still believed in the dream of free trade -- the idea that if we lowered our trade barriers, our trading partners would too (Newsflash: They didn’t)...

• By the early 2000s, it became clear that many North American manufacturers didn’t understand the above goals or programs, didn’t know there were specific rules of origin, and didn’t train their staff to follow them.
• Companies were issuing FTA certificates on their own products without performing the NAFTA tests to see if they qualified. 
• Many even carelessly issued certs automatically, on everything they shipped, no matter where the products were made...

But taken as a group, such issues prove a general failure of the program. 

• The USA, Canada, and Mexico continued to bleed manufacturing, while China continued to gain market share.

Something had to be done...