--- title: Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would renegotiate or break NAFTA canonical: https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/ author: Justin Worland article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-27T21:33:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:18:02.016Z article:section: Politics og:title: Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA og:description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would renegotiate or break NAFTA og:url: https://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA twitter:description: GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would renegotiate or break NAFTA twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Donald Trump Says He Would Break NAFTA  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Sep 27, 2015 9:33 PM UTC  by [Justin Worland](https://time.com/author/justin-worland/)  ## Justin Worland Senior Correspondent Sep 27, 2015 9:33 PM UTC 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"}}]}] ```