Mexico and canada, and its now before them and theyll have to make a decision. But thats one the farmers love, the manufacturers love, the unions love. Its a great deal for this country, and nafta was i think one of the worst trade deals ever made. Made the wto was worse, the wto from the time that happened in 95. From the time that happened china baem like a rocket ship. It was pretty much flat lined and all of a sudden it joined the wto and they became i mean they went through the roof. And very much to our liability its we lost tremendous amounts of money over the from that time we just lost tremendous amounts. It was a terrible deal, wto world trade. And if you look at nafta, nafta has been a disaster for our
country. The usmca is a great deal for our country. I think canada is happy, but theyre not happy like were happy, but theyre very happy. Its a good deal for canada, a good deal for mexico. Mexico just approved it, and canada is waiting for us to approve it. And its with the P
only stay but maybe they have access to green cards. we ve got to keep these people here. sure, that could happen. but we re holding on tariffs and they re going to buy foreign product. but that could happen, john. this doesn t mean there s going to be a deal but they would like to make a deal. i can tell you that. and if we could make a deal, it would be a historic event. we ve never had a deal with china. we ve had tremendous deficits, tremendous amounts of money was put into china, 500 million a year. and i mean not just surplus and deficit, i m talking about real hard cash. and it should have never, ever been allowed to happen for all of our presidents over the last number of years. go ahead, please. yes, mr. president. from the voice of america. after your discussions with prime minister abe here are you
we mentioned huawei. i said we ll have to save that to the very end. we ll have to see. one of the things i will allow, however, a lot of people are surprised we send and we sell to huawei a tremendous amount of product that goes into the various things they make. and i said that s okay, we will keep selling that product. these are american companies, john, that make product. and that s very complex, by the way. highly scientific, and in some cases we re the ones that do it, and we re the only ones that do it. we re the only ones with technology. what we ve done in silicon valley is amazing actually, and nobody s been able to compete with it. and pretty easily i ve agreed to allow them to continue to sell that product so american companies will continue. and they were having a problem, the companies were not exactly happy they couldn t sell because they had nothing to do with whatever was potentially happening with respect to
hopefully, we don t have to use it very much. but, no, they came in, i said this and they came back a short time later and said about 150 people. i said that s really disproportionate, i don t like it. my second question is here at the g-20 summit what can you tell us, has the ball been moved in any particular direction towards easing the tensions with iran in some of the meetings that you ve had? well, i ve had a lot of countries come up to me. for instance, france has come up. if you look at president macron, good guy. he came up to me and said, you know, i do a lot of business, meaning france does a lot of business with iran. i d love to go see them. i said, sure, i think talking is great. i think john carrie shouldn t have been talking to them.