The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement is the usual sort of dog’s breakfast that trade deals always become, splattered with the vomit of side deals for special interests at the expense of the populace. The saving grace of this particular deal between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada is that it’s mostly over relatively minor matters — does the Canadian market for cheese curds and whey really interest anyone? — and is going to have, for all the effort put into it and the trumpeting of the achievements, little effect in the overall scheme of things.

The only reasonable or fair trade deal is the one I’ve continually proposed for my native Britain as it leaves the European Union, here lightly adapted for U.S. usage: