Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a Politico article about the United States’ renegotiation of NAFTA with Canada and Mexico.
“I’m skeptical that they are going to reach a deal by early 2018,” said Matt Gold, a former U.S. trade negotiator who now teaches international law at Fordham University. “I think the parties are too far apart. Trump is going to have to go through a process of cooling off and getting over it, if he wants any agreement at all.”
If there’s no deal by early 2018, the talks may go into hiatus, while the Mexican election takes center stage.
“To me the only scenario where they complete the negotiations by the end of February 2018 is if Donald Trump is willing to give in considerably more than he pretends,” Gold said.
That, in turn, depends on whether the Trump administration thinks “they can sell a modest update as the major overhaul that they promised,” Gold added.