Trump hails new trade pact with Mexico, Canada

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President Donald Trump says a new trade pact being signed by the United States, Mexico, and Canada is a “model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever.”

Trump spent more than a year pushing the leaders of Canada and Mexico into agreeing to a rewrite of North American trade rules. Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico’s outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto are signing the new pact Friday at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Trump now faces what could prove a more formidable foe: The U.S. Congress, which must ratify the agreement. He says the parties have “taken a lot of barbs and a little abuse” during the renegotiation.

He turned to Trudeau, saying “It’s been a battle,” but battles sometimes make “good friends.”

The Mexican government has presented Trump’s son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner with the Order of the Aztec Eagle. It’s the highest honor America’s southern neighbor gives to foreigners.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department says Kushner earned the honor for his work on renegotiating a new trade agreement.

It replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

Kushner, who has been working on U.S.-Mexico issues, said relations have improved because the countries decided not to work across the table, but on the same side to craft “win-win” solutions to migration, drug trafficking and abuse, and other issues plaguing relations.

Kushner says there’s a “strong level of trust” between the U.S. and Mexico, despite news reports citing clashes between the neighbors.

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