U.S. President Donald Trump says he would prefer to leave the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) instead of renewing the trade deal that he negotiated during his first term.
“I would rather leave it unsigned. I’d rather have it terminated … I may sign it, but I would rather–we do better as a country if we don’t have an agreement,” Trump told reporters while at the G7 Summit in France on June 17.
The three countries are currently in negotiations around a potential renewal of CUSMA before the sixth anniversary of the deal, which falls on July 1. Both Canada and Mexico have said they want to see a 16-year extension of the CUSMA agreement, but Washington has not made its position public….