Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in Toronto’s Globe and Mail about President Trump’s vow to renegotiate NAFTA.
Matthew Gold, a former deputy assistant U.S. trade representative, said earlier this week that Mr. Trump appears to be navigating the gap between his campaign trail rhetoric on NAFTA and the realities of dealing with it in office.
“Donald Trump … campaigned validating peoples’ beliefs that NAFTA is why their dog died, NAFTA is why their spouse left them, and, while NAFTA was causing floods, it was simultaneously causing droughts,” he said at a Georgetown University forum on trade. “We all know we lost manufacturing jobs after we entered into NAFTA, but most of those were lost to automation … there is nothing you can do to NAFTA that will bring those jobs back.”