--- description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would renegotiate or break NAFTA title: Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Politics](/section/politics/) ## Politics Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [2016 Election](/tag/2016-election/) ## 2016 Election Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Sep 27, 2015 9:33 PM CUT  by [Justin Worland](/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Senior Correspondent Sep 27, 2015 9:33 PM CUT Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Sunday that he would renegotiate or break the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). “We will either renegotiate it or we will break it,” Trump said during an interview on _60 Minutes,_ following a question about how to keep American jobs from moving to Mexico. “Because, you know, every agreement has an end.” NAFTA, which has been in effect since the mid-1990s, allows free trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico. “We need fair trade. Not free trade,” he said. “It’s got to be fair.” Trump is not the only GOP candidate to suggest that the U.S. can and should break its international agreements in some circumstances. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina all have said they would renege on the Iran nuclear deal the Obama Administration struck earlier this year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/"},"headline":"Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA","datePublished":"2015-09-27T21:33:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:18:02.016Z","description":"'We need fair trade. Not free trade'","url":"https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Justin Worland","jobTitle":"Senior Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/justin-worland/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/","name":"Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA"}}]}] ```