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Trump bashes NAFTA in midst of talks to revamp trade deal

By PAUL WISEMAN ,  AP Economics Writer
Published: August 23, 2017, 10:59am

WASHINGTON — Just a week into talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, President Donald Trump is already threatening to abandon the 23-year-old pact with Canada and Mexico.

At a high-profile campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday night, Trump predicted that the United States would “end up probably terminating” NAFTA “at some point,” though he said he hadn’t made a final decision.

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