Days Notice: Trade Agreement and Draft Order

days notice: Reuters By The Canadian Press Fri., April 28, 2017 WASHINGTON A published report says President Donald Trump planned to give Canada and Mexico five days notice that the U.S. intended to leave the North American Free Trade Agreement, according to Toronto Star. The Financial Times says it received a leaked draft executive order that Trump had originally planned to sign on Saturday before backtracking and agreeing to renegotiate the trade pact.A copy of the draft order posted online by the Financial Times says Canada has continued to exploit the American dairy and lumber industries. As the two men sat together in the Oval Office, Trump said he would renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico. Read the latest on U.S. President Donald Trump The document blames NAFTA for a massive transfer of wealth from the United States, the loss of 700,000 jobs and a more than 1-trillion trade deficit with Mexico since the agreement was enacted in 1993. Trump said on April 27 he had agreed to pleas from the leaders of Canada and Mexico not to withdraw immediately from the North American Free Trade Agreement. /react-text STEPHEN CROWLEY / The New York Times File Photo On Thursday, Trump insisted he wasn't bluffing about threatening to pull out of NAFTA, but said he had a change of heart during phone calls with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. Article Continued Below It also states NAFTA is responsible for waves of illegal immigration and the closure of tens of thousands of factories and manufacturing establishments in the U.S. react-text 150 President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shake hands at a joint news conference at the White House, Feb. 13, 2017. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.