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NAFTA will be updated. @DanGriswold @Mercatus

MEXICO CITY/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Mexico and Canada on Wednesday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's latest threat to scrap NAFTA, describing it as a negotiating tactic aimed at winning the upper hand in talks to update one of the world's biggest trading blocs.

At a campaign-style rally in Arizona on Tuesday night, Trump cast doubt on any deal to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement and said "we'll end up probably terminating NAFTA at some point."

Initial talks between Mexico, the United States and Canada to update NAFTA ended in Washington over the weekend amid signs of deep division on key issues. Further discussions are due to start in Mexico City on Sept. 1.

Trump has long called the 1994 treaty a bad deal that hurt American workers, saying it should be renegotiated or ended....

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-nafta-mexico-idUSKCN1B31H1