The debates about NAFTA over many years have been complex. Yet, that's not where we are. This isn't 1992 or 1993 and trying to decide whether to forge ahead with this agreement. It's 2017 and it's been the law of the land for decades. Industry has accommodated itself to this. Sector after sector have grown used to it and come to use it in a way that to take it asunder would do great harm. My boss, Tom Donohue, in the Wall Street Journal today, included the chamber's estimate that hundreds of thousands of jobs could be at risk. It's hard to game out how exactly that would all unfold and just how dramatic it would be. We've used the figure often that multiple economic studies come up with the same sort of number for the United States of about 14 million American jobs depending on trade with Canada and Mexico. If you took away the NAFTA, those jobs wouldn't all disappear. We traded with Canada and Mexico before NAFTA. But we're talking about a macroeconomic event here that would have very broad repercussions in the U.S. economy. It would be potentially larger for Canada and Mexico. As a representative of a U.S. business group, we want to call attention to that risk. It's very substantial for the United States as well.
On September 25th, 2017. See this statement in context.