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The dispute highlights one thing: the trade gap between the U.S. and Canada is probably surmountable. It’s the gap with Mexico that is the real challenge.

American workers whose lives were uprooted by multinational free trade deals are thanking President Trump for signing into law tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to protect U.S. jobs.

As President Trump made history signing into law his tariffs on steel and aluminum to protect American workers and U.S. industries, GOP megadonor Charles Koch called on “corporate leaders” to “reject” the decision.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) is thrilled that President Donald Trump is moving forward with tariffs of 25 percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum imports into the United States, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday.

“Looking forward to 3:30 P.M. meeting today at the White House,” he wrote. “We have to protect & build our Steel and Aluminum Industries while at the same time showing great flexibility and cooperation toward those that are real friends and treat us fairly on both trade and the military.”

Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle company, is warning against President Trump’s proposed 25 percent tariffs on imported steel and ten percent tariff on imported aluminum while laying off American manufacturing workers.

Pro-mass immigration GOP megadonor billionaires the Koch brothers are now committed to working against President Trump’s two leading populist issues: immigration and trade.

The “Trumpocrats,” the group of working and middle-class Democrat voters who supported President Trump in the 2016 presidential election, have won a victory, as their nemesis in the White House, Gary Cohn has resigned.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) told reporters on Tuesday that he remains worried that Trump’s proposed tariffs on steel and aluminum could “metastasize” into a trade war.

Mexico’s economy minister said that they would target politically senstitive U.S. products if the U.S. does not exclude Mexico from the metals tariffs.

Rick Manning, president of Americans for Limited Government, discussed America’s aluminum and steel industries in an interview Monday on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak. Destruction of America’s aluminum and steel industries via Chinese commodity dumping would leave America “vulnerable to blackmail on key component parts” needed for the U.S. to have “a modern industrial economy,” Manning said.

“Our time is running very short,” Lighthizer said Monday during a press conference at the end of the seventh round of negotiations in Mexico City.

Trump put the proposed tariffs of ten percent on aluminum and 25 percent on steel in the context of NAFTA, working with Mexico and Canada to renegotiate the free trade deal.

“NAFTA, which is under renegotiation right now, has been a bad deal for U.S.A.,” Trump wrote. “Massive relocation of companies & jobs. Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum will only come off if new & fair NAFTA agreement is signed.”

President Trump called his economic adviser Gary Cohn a “globalist” on the issue of trade in a White House fight over tariffs.

Goldman Sachs’ chief economist suggested that Trump’s tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum will lead to the United States leaving the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

President Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs will combat China’s “deliberate attempt to bankrupt our strategic industries” vital to our national defense, said Curtis Ellis, the senior policy adviser for America First Policies.

Nearly 60 percent of American voters say imposing tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum is crucial to the United States’ economic relationship with China.

Americans who hold Peruvian land bonds are ramping up efforts to seek help from President Donald Trump and his administration in collecting payouts that Peru has been slow to pay, but a previous winner of the first-ever “Globalist of the Year” award stands in their way.

President Donald Trump has started to make the American economy great again with tough trade policies. Yet, Gary Cohn, the president’s chief economist has obstructed that agenda at every opportunity.

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau toured California tech communities last weekend to drum up “Resistance” to President Trump’s threat to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Senior administration officials quashed a letter from Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff recommending the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer negotiate to end a little-known visa program that permits tens of thousands of Canadian and Mexican white-collar workers to work in America.

“The problem is we’ve got too many people running the state of California that have never worked in the private sector,” said Kimberlin Brown Pelzer during a Wednesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-hosts Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak.

This week on “The McLaughlin Group,” conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan warned to watch out for what President Donald Trump does with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump has threatened to terminate NAFTA but said he could also renegotiate the

During his speech to the American Farm Bureau at its annual convention, President Trump said that “farmers deserve a government that serves their interest and empowers them to do the hard work that they love to do so much.” As a family farmer, I couldn’t agree more.

President Donald Trump approved tariffs on imports of washing machines and solar panels on Tuesday, asserting that his actions would help restore American jobs.

Tensions continue to escalate between the Mexican Government and the White House following a series of statements in reference to the country’s out-of-control violence and the payment for the border wall.

President Donald Trump corrected his Chief of Staff John Kelly after he said that the president had “evolved” on the wall.

“[Mexicans] realize they have more to lose than the United States” in the event of a collapse of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said Curtis Ellis, Senior Policy Advisor for America First Policies.

Donald Trump’s threat to take the U.S. out of NAFTA is likely behind Fiat Chrysler’s decision to move Ram truck production back to America.

The battle to decide the shape of global trade is heating up as Canada files a wide-ranging complaint against Trump’s trade sanctions.

President Donald Trump restated his promise to make Mexico pay for his big wall on the Southern border, suggesting that they would do it by renegotiating NAFTA.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, charged with implementing President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist trade agenda, has come under fire from some Republican senators, according to a Tuesday report from The Hill.

Candidate Donald Trump promised to Make America Great Again with tax, trade, and regulatory policies that put the interests of the forgotten men and women of America First.

Milton Friedman once said there is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program.

Very few economists think the economic consequences of leaving NAFTA would involve the U.S. entering a recession.