"The biggest issue in NAFTA is that there’s a fundamental difference as to how we view trade," said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth on the outlook for the agreement renegotiation.

On “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas,” AS/COA’s Eric Farnsworth talks about what’s at stake as the United States makes moves to separate NAFTA negotiations into bilateral meetings.

By imposing tariffs on its allies, the U.S. may become the global economy's destabilizer, said AS/COA's Eric Farnsworth.

"NAFTA probablemente continuará bajo una nube de incertidumbre", anticipa Eric Farnsworth, Vicepresidente de AS/COA, después de nueve meses de negociaciones en las que los tres países no han llegado a ningún acuerdo sobre los temas principales.

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.