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August 28, 2018
Mexico deal shows that Trump’s trade strategy is succeeding brilliantly
By Thomas Lifson

President Trump is following through on his promise to restructure the framework of US foreign trade, and his strategy looks brilliant. The deal that he just negotiated with Mexico, leaving Canada on the sidelines, is described as a win-win pact, benefitting both countries.

The key to benefit both sides is that China is the big loser. By tightening local [U.S. and Mexico] content requirements to 75%, up from 62.5%, and imposing a requirement that workers be paid at least $16 an hour on 40 to 45% of the content, Chinese auto parts and other supplies will be squeezed out. The exports China gives up will be replaced by content produced by Mexican and US Workers.

It is becoming clear to me that President Trump is mobilizing the principal trade partners of the US to unite to pressure China. That nation’s gigantic ongoing theft of intellectual property, its currency manipulation and trade restrictions have led to chronic huge trade surpluses with the United States most notably, but every manufacturing country on earth has felt the impact of Chinese manufacturing exports powered by those unfair practices. So, by using bilateral deals rather than the multilateral approach favored for the last three decades or so, President Trump is putting together a global alliance that will stand up to China and force it to stop it takeover of the world’s manufacturing sector and compete like a normal country.

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I don't know what the objection has been to forcing freer trade on nations giving but lip service to free trade. We can't carry the economic weight of the world on our shoulders.

Why is Mexico now willing to negotiate trade with the U.S.? At least partly for having made the same mistake as everyone else in imagining China a good trading partner. That imagining disappears when they see themselves on the losing end of the trade.