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Mexicans throwing a spanner in the USMCA trade pact?

Democrats, who’ve done nothing other than yell about impeachment these past two years, are hastily moving to get the redone free trade pact with Mexico and Canada out the door so they can say they’ve done something.

Just one problem, though: The Mexicans are balking.  Here are some headlines:

Mexicans throw 11th hour curveball at Trump’s biggest trade deal —Axios

Mexico Official Complains About 3-Way Trade Deal in Tweetstorm —Bloomberg

Mexico objects to USMCA ratification bill: ‘We are not in agreement,’ —Washington Times

Somehow, the Mexicans are the problem.  Actually, the problem is the Democrats.

Democrats don’t like free trade pacts to start with, but they find them useful for slipping in laws applicable to other countries they weren’t elected to govern.

This time, they slipped in a sneaky little proviso at the last minute mandating that U.S. left-wing labor lawyers be dispatched to every Mexican factory to police the Mexicans’ operations to American union standards.  They did it without telling the Mexicans.  […]

Read the full story from American Thinker


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