Trump Calls North American Trade Pact He Brokered ‘Irrelevant’

President Donald Trump expressed indifference toward the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, portending a lengthy renegotiation of the US’s largest free-trade pact.

Trump on Tuesday said there’s “no real advantage” to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he signed in 2020 and is subject to a review this year. He said the deal primarily benefits Canada, but that Americans “don’t need their product” because “everybody’s moving here.”

“We could have it or not, it wouldn’t matter,” Trump told reporters during a tour of a Ford Motor Co. plant when asked if he would engage in renegotiating the accord or ...