Trump rules out swift Nafta withdrawal

Trump on the campaign trail last year made a hawkish vow to pull out of Nafta

President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s still ready to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) if he can’t renegotiate better terms for the US but that he decided to hold off on a decision after appeals from the leaders of Canada and Mexico.

“I was going to terminate Nafta as of two or three days from now,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. But he said he reconsidered after Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau both phoned him Wednesday asking him to renegotiate the deal instead. Those talks will start as