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Any Trump NAFTA withdrawal faces stiff court challenge: legal experts

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – With NAFTA talks grinding toward stalemate, U.S. President Donald Trump may be tempted to carry out his threat to withdraw from the trade pact, but legal experts say such a decision could be defeated, or delayed significantly by court challenges.

The constitutional and statutory authority for who can terminate the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement – Trump or the U.S. Congress – is deeply disputed, and it may take the U.S. Supreme Court or a truce between the White House and Capitol Hill to sort it out.

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