President Donald Trump is "seriously contemplating" making separate trade deals with Canada and Mexico, in place of the two-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement, a White House official said today.
"He prefers bilateral negotiations and he is looking at two much different countries," Trump economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Fox News.
Kudlow noted that the talks to revamp the North American Free Trade agreement have "dragged on" so separate deals "might be able to happen more rapidly." "He is seriously contemplating a shift in the NAFTA negotiations ... (and) he asked me to convey this," he said, adding that Trump "believed bilateral is always better. He hates large treaties."
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