Trump’s NAFTA Deal Now in Doubt After Democrats Take House (2)

The Democratic House takeover is likely to delay ratification of a trade deal with Canada and Mexico and force the Trump administration to make changes.

Democrats could press President Donald Trump to improve the agreement’s labor obligations with a focus on its enforcement mechanisms, medicines provisions, and how it addresses outsourcing.

“I don’t think the Democrats will let it go as is,” William Reinsch, senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Bloomberg Law.

Trump spent a year arguing with Canada and Mexico, two top U.S. trading partners, over what he complained was NAFTA’s unfairness, then got ...