US industry gears up to salvage Nafta talks

Washington

THE business world is mobilising to convince the Trump administration to save the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), which corporate leaders say has greatly benefited the world's largest economy for 23 years.

With televised ads proclaiming "Nafta works for America" and study after study enumerating the dangers of withdrawing from the treaty, the US Chamber of Commerce and like-minded trade proponents have taken their message to Capitol Hill.