President Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House on Oct. 11, 2017. (Saul Loeb/Getty). (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) President Trump didn’t indicate he was distressed when U.S.-Canada trade talks broke down Friday, forcing the administration to move forward, for now, with a Mexico-only deal that the president is billing as a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement. “If we don’t make a deal on Canada, that’s fine,” Trump said Friday at an event in Charlotte. He followed up Saturday morning with another Twitter jab: “I love Canada, but they’ve taken advantage of our Country for many years!” he wrote. But although Trump isn’t promising to bend, he has a lot of incentives to get a Canadian deal done. If he can get Canada on board with his NAFTA plan by the end of September, he will have taken a major step toward a top economic promise from his campaign. And he can tell midterm voters that his negotiating strategy of tough talk and tariffs has driven foreign leaders to the bargaining table. Perhaps more significant is what happens if Trump can’t patch things up with the U.S. neighbor to the north. For starters, he would only have an agreement with Mexico, a “half-NAFTA.” It’s unlikely to be enough to satisfy Congress, and it would probably embolden the other trading partners Trump is currently at loggerheads with to dig their heels in, too. Trump isn’t just negotiating with Canada; he’s also trying to outmaneuver the European Union and China on trade. In addition to political fallout, there would
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