President Donald Trump said Thursday that "we'll have something, I think, fairly soon" on a renegotiated NAFTA deal with Canada and Mexico.
"There's no rush," Trump told a business roundtable on tax cuts at the White Sulphur Springs Civic Center in West Virginia. "We get it done right or we'll terminate.
"If we don't have it done right, we'll terminate."
Trump's comments came as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signaled that he saw a strong chance of reaching a revamped North American Free-Trade Agreement.
The president has long slammed NAFTA as a "bad deal" for the U.S.
"We have a high chance of reaching a win-win-win deal for Canada, the United States and Mexico," Trudeau said in Montreal.
"With the pressures of the elections in Mexico, and the U.S. elections, if we could announce something at the Summit of the Americas, that would be great," he added, referring to the April 13-14 gathering of regional leaders in Peru.
Trump also referenced the Peru summit in his comments.
"I told my people: 'We're making a trip next week to Peru, representing all of South America and different places.'
"It will be very interesting.
"But they said, 'Oh, let's have NAFTA before.' I said, 'Don't rush it.'"
He later noted: "When I was running, I said we'll terminate NAFTA or renegotiate it.
"And, Mexico's been pretty good."
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