(Corrects title of Royce Mendes, paragraph 9)By David Ljunggren and Andrea Hopkins Nov 10 Canada could fall back on a free
trade agreement that excludes Mexico if U.S. President-elect
Donald Trump follows through on radical protectionist policies,
officials said, predicting fears of a massive economic hit are
overblown.During a raucous election campaign, Trump vowed to either
renegotiate or scrap the 1994 three-nation North American Free
Trade Agreement, under which Canada sends 75 percent of all its
exports to the United States.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday that
“if Americans want to talk about NAFTA, I’m more than happy to
talk about it”, a day after Canada’s ambassador to the U.S. said
Ottawa would be “happy” to renegotiate NAFTA.The envoy, David MacNaughton, said that even if NAFTA were
torn up, the two nations would be bound by the terms of the 1987
Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the …
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