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Lvl7King t1_jdhvvsg wrote

Thanks in large to the USMCA Trump trade deal.

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capsaicinintheeyes t1_jdi0yp7 wrote

I thought I remembered a bunch of sound and fury followed by the passing of a bill that was 99% pre-Trump NAFTA...but that's not to say there was nothing new in there that may have helped our trade I vaguely remember for the Mexican side something about insisting on minimum wages being higher for manufacturing cars that would be sold in the US, so either Mexican workers get a raise, US workers become more competitive, or both...which all seems win-win-win to me.

How does the data on OP's graph compare to the years before Trump's revisions passed, tho? I wouldn't know where to begin

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TheBatemanFlex t1_jdi7pi6 wrote

Nope. USMCA did not have a significant effect on anything in OPs graph.

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carlosortegap t1_jdj8a44 wrote

The trade percentages haven't changed much since we went from NAFTA to USMCA

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