Presumably, this is because President Trump draws encouragement from the strong positive crowd reactions he gets when he lashes out at trade agreements. Other putative trade targets, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the World Trade Organization (WTO), were completed and installed in the United States through implementing legislation. President Trump, as a candidate, did promise to kill the deal. For these countries their “threat point,” to use negotiating parlance, is a strong one – an existing FTA with the United States. The last big trade legislation to move through Congress was Trade Promotion Authority in the early summer of 2015.

Source: Forbes March 26, 2017 02:26 UTC