Trump drafts executive order to pull out of NAFTA: Report

Published April 26, 2017 9:25pm ET



President Trump is thinking about pulling the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and has drafted an executive order in anticipation for moving on it as early as Thursday or Friday, according to a report.

The deal was first created by the Clinton administration in 1994 as a way to ensure no tariffs of goods between the three countries. Trump campaigned on rescinding NAFTA.

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