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However, Trump transition official [Anthony Scaramucci], also remarked, "one of the deleterious side effects of this is that it's hollowed out the manufacturing base of the United States."
"I don't think anybody in the administration is looking for quote-unquote tariffs," he continued, "but I think they are a cudgel, if you will, to lay out there if we can't get the trade deals to be right-sided to now benefit the American people."
Other industry leaders favorable to NAFTA also sound optimistic about Trump's approach to reform, in part at least because of how NAFTA is crafted to ensure global cheap labor for multiple nations, not just one in particular.
Eduardo Solis, a former government trade negotiator and current president of the Mexican Automotive Industry Association, told an auto industry gathering last week that "the North American region has to be analyzed vs. the other regions of the world, not Mexico vs. the United States," according to Crain News Service.
Jerry Gulke, a farmer and grain futures trader who attends Federal Reserve meetings, told CNBC, "The farm states put Trump over the top," so, "You could say Trump owes us something."
The peaceful transition of power away from President Barack Obama will leave Trump with all of his predecessor's authority, including that of"fast-track" negotiation on trade deals. Congress approved the executive capacity to bypass congressional amendments on trade deals, requiring a simple-majority vote of US senators to pass a deal.
Even under this expanded prerogative to influence trade and despite media characterizations to the contrary, Scaramucci stressed that Trump will not govern as a protectionist.
"I can state categorically that if [Trump] were standing here right now, he'd tell you that he's a free trader," he said, The Hill reported.
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