Killing Nafta will hurt US business and farm interests

Washington

THE Nafta war is heating up. It is a confusing conflict because perceptions are driven by political rhetoric, not economic reality.

Nafta, of course, stands for the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has eliminated most tariffs among the United States, Mexico and Canada. During the campaign, candidate Donald Trump denounced it as a bad deal for the United States, and vowed to improve or scrap it. The trouble is that Nafta is actually not a bad deal for the United States.