In February, Colombia sent more oil to the United States than Venezuela did for the first time.
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The republican senator for Nebraska explained that automation threatens jobs more than does global trade.
Countries in Latin America pursuing a free-trade agenda are not economic basket cases, writes AS/COA's Vice President Eric Farnsworth in a letter to the WSJ.
The letter, sent by a group of senior national security leaders, urges U.S. President Donald Trump to keep the United States in NAFTA.
Trade between Canada, Mexico, and the United States grew 6.5 percent in 2017, hitting $1.2 trillion.
"Undermining trust by whatever means makes it more difficult to update, much less keep, NAFTA," the AS/COA vice president tells Forbes.com.
How would North America function without the trade bloc? Council of the Americas and the Wilson Center held a discussion with current and ex-government officials and business leaders from across the continent.