The Senate and the House approved the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993.
If a nation decides to withdraw from NAFTA, the agreement specifies a six-month notification process.
A president, with the support of Congress, can initiate this process. And a president, with the support of Congress, can attempt to renegotiate NAFTA.
What a president and Congress can’t do is willy-nilly abrogate provisions they decide are not to their liking.
But that’s exactly what Congress has been trying to do for 15 years by obstructing a cross-border trucking provision.
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San Antonio Express-News Transportes Olympic, meet Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution. Olympic is a Mexican truck company in Nuevo León, the first to be certified by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to carry cargo into the interior of the United States in a one-year test of a provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement. A driver made the inaugural delivery this month of Mexican steel to a construction site in North Carolina.
Stagecoach is an American trucking firm in El Paso, the first to be certified to carry cargo into Mexico under the same NAFTA provision. A week after the Olympic truck rolled into the United States, a Stagecoach rig carried an initial load of American plastic pellets to a razor factory near Hermosillo.
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