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Regarding trade pacts, Trump’s seven-point trade plan
circulating at the start of the year outlined initiatives that included immediately informing NAFTA partners that the US intended to renegotiate the terms of the pact to bet- ter benefi t US workers. If NAFTA partners did not agree, Trump would launch eff orts to get the US to entirely with- draw from the deal. The plan also included initiatives to: bring trade cases
against China, in the US and at the World Trade Organiza- tion; withdraw from the Trans-Pacifi c Partnership, a measure that to date has not been ratifi ed, and use his executive power to remedy trade disputes if China did not stop its “il- legal” activities, including its “theft” of US trade secrets. The plan was part of Trump’s eff orts to negotiate trade
deals that create jobs and increase wages in the US and reduce the country’s trade defi cit. The most pressing concern NACFAM and ITIF had at the time about the proposals related to international trade. The mercurial commander in chief will, it seems, keep people guessing for a long while about actual policy moves in manufacturing. Nevertheless, Smart Manufacturing
decided the importance of the topic deemed it necessary to take the market’s pulse as close as possible to the time this issue was sent to the printer.
A ‘wrong approach’ on trade Trump’s announced plans to automatically cancel exist-
ing trade policies is “the wrong approach to take,” Fred Wentzel, executive VP at NACFAM said. “We would prefer to see the new administration examine its options fi rst and quickly explore the probable outcomes before saying yes or no to any existing policy.” How the administration will view the relationship of
international trade and the larger issue of US economic growth remained to be seen in January. “We must remember that the world now operates like a global village, which means people and products move freely throughout the village,” Wentzel said. “Trade within the village must be treated as ‘a natural way of life’ that permits all occupants of the village to enjoy free access to it. As everyone enjoys this privilege, the village’s economy will grow and prosper.”
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