NAFTA

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Stateside: World robotics championship in Detroit; Pence visits MI; archiving the Flint water crisis

Stateside Staff

Today on Stateside , Vice President Mike Pence comes to Detroit to whip up support for the new North American trade deal, even as automakers nervously...

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Stateside: what new trade deal means for auto industry; will electric scooters work in Detroit?

Stateside Staff

Today on Stateside , why the auto industry is breathing "a sigh of relief" after President Trump announced the trilateral trade deal that will replace...

Migrant farmworkers live and work on Michgan farms during the harvest season.

Michigan Food & Agriculture

State agriculture chief warns against scrapping NAFTA, favors “modernization”

Stateside Staff

One of President Trump’s key campaign promises was to rewrite the North American Free Trade Act to be a better deal with the United States, or he...

Bernard Wolf, a Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Business at York University, said President Donald Trump's notion of an equal trade balance makes no sense.

Around Michigan & State Government

For Michigan and Ontario, renegotiating NAFTA could be a risky proposition

Stateside Staff

President Donald Trump talks a lot about "renegotiating" NAFTA . There are few places that would feel the fallout from changes to the North American...

Daniel Howes: "Unless this president can repeal the laws of market economics, companies are going to go elsewhere to find production sites and sources for things"

Michigan Business & Economy

Howes: Trump is displaying a "pretty incredible ignorance" about how modern auto industry works

Stateside Staff

There's been something besides the shiny new cars, SUVs and trucks grabbing attention this week at the North American International Auto Show . That...

Agricultural Leaders of Michigan released a letter in support of several trade agreements last week.

Michigan Business & Economy

Mich. agricultural leaders: If we don’t embrace trade agreements, “we’re going to be the losers"

Stateside Staff

Trade agreements have been a big topic of discussion this election year. President Obama has been pushing for the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The...

President Bill Clinton signing the North American Free Trade Agreement into Law. Al Gore is pictured besides him.

Around Michigan & State Government

How has NAFTA affected Michigan?

Stateside Staff

It’s been 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect. It drastically changed the economic relationship between Canada, the...