If NAFTA gets terminated, `that´ll be fine,´ Trump tells Trudeau in Oval Office meeting
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WASHINGTON—U.S. President Donald Trump sent more vague signals on the North American Free Trade Agreement before a meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday. Speaking beside Trudeau in the Oval Office, Trump hailed their “great personal relationship� but was noncommittal in response to every question about NAFTA. “We’ll see what happens. It’s possible we won’t be able to make a deal and it’s possible that we will,� Trump said.He proceeded to waver between mild professions of optimism and another mention of his comfort with the possibility that the agreement will be terminated. “We have a great personal relationship, and we have a relationship now as two countries I think that’s as close as ever. But we’ll see if we can do the kind of changes that we need. We have to protect our workers, and in all fairness, the prime minister wants to protect Canada and his people also. So we’ll see what happens with NAFTA. But I’ve been opposed to NAFTA for a long time in terms of the fairness of NAFTA. I said we’ll renegotiate. “And I think Justin understands that if we can’t make a deal, it’ll be terminated, and that’ll be fine,� he said. “They’re going to do well, we’re going to do well. But maybe that won’t be necessary. But it has to be fair to both countries.�Read more: Donald Trump’s ‘outrageous’ demands put NAFTA negotiations at risk of collapse as talks resume Wednesday, experts sayTrump has long expressed a preference for two-way deals rather than multi-way deals. On Wednesday, he again floated the possibility that Mexico could be dumped from the three-country pact. “It’s possible we won’t be able to reach a deal with one or the other,� he said. “But in the meantime we’ll make a deal with one. But I think we have a chance to do something very creative th ...