MONESSEN, Pennsylvania/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday vowed to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with the United States if elected, as part of an effort to protect and restore American jobs. 
  
 Trump criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement as a U.S. job killer, saying he would be willing to scrap the pact if Canada and Mexico were unwilling to budge. He also tried to link Democratic rival Hillary Clinton to the deal on the eve of a meeting in Ottawa of the “three amigos,” the leaders of the three NAFTA signatories: the United States, Mexico and Canada. 
  
 In his most detailed speech on trade, the presumptive Republican nominee said he would pull the United States out of negotiations for a deal among 12 Pacific Rim nations and promised to use executive power to resolve trade disputes with China. 
  
 Trump also pledged to revive the U.S. steel and aluminum industry, speaking at an aluminum scrap company in Monessen, Pennsylvania, nearly 30 miles (50 km) south of Pittsburgh, the one-time American steelmaking capital. 
  
 Trump has identified Pennsylvania as a state he believes he can wrest from the Democrats in the Nov. 8 election. He also campaigned on Tuesday in Ohio, which like Pennsylvania is a Rust Belt state. 
  
 Democratic President Barack Obama won both states in 2008 and 2012, but manufacturing job losses have led to voter anxiety in the region. 
  
 “I’m going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers. And I don’t mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better,” Trump said in Pennsylvania. 
  
 If Canada and Mexico do not agree to renegotiate the pact, Trump said he would notify them under the agreement’s terms “that America intends to withdraw from the deal.” 
  
 He tried to tie his Democratic rival to the pact, approved in 1993 during the administration of her husband, President Bill Clinton, as he called NAFTA one of the “worst legacies” of the Clinton years. 
  
 On MSNBC after Trump’s speech, Clinton spokeswoman Kristina Schake called the wealthy New York businessman the “king of outsourcing,” in an apparent reference to Trump-branded products such as suits and ties made overseas. 
  
 “It was full of hypocrisy and misstatements and outright lies,” Schake said. 
  
 Trade has been a vulnerability for Clinton, who struggled for white, blue-collar votes in her Democratic primary race against U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who criticized her for supporting trade deals and said she was too close to Wall Street. 
  
 Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Alumisourse Building in Monessen, Pennsylvania, U.S., June 28, 2016. REUTERS/Louis Ruediger 
  
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 Trump echoed Sanders’ criticism on Tuesday, saying Clinton supported the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, while she was secretary of state and only opposed it once she was running for president. Clinton’s campaign said she opposed the agreement because it was not strong enough on currency manipulation and other areas. 
  
 Clinton has said she will evaluate each trade deal on its merits but does not believe the TPP is good for U.S. workers. Sanders now says he will vote for Clinton in November, although he has not formally withdrawn from the race. 
  
 Trump said he saw no way to fix the TPP, calling it a “death blow” for American manufacturing. Although China is not part of the agreement, Trump said Beijing might try to enter it “through the back door” later on. 
  
 Later, during a rally in St. Clairsville, Ohio, Trump said the deal was “just a continuing rape of our country.” 
  
 Just hours before Trump spoke, Clinton allies sought to pre-empt the planned trade speech by saying Trump’s policies amounted to empty promises. 
  
 Earlier, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka told a trade conference in Washington that “Trump embodies everything that is wrong with our current trade policy. He has consistently sent American jobs overseas to line his own pockets.” 
  
 The AFL-CIO, which collectively represents more than 12 million workers, making it the largest U.S. labor federation, endorsed Clinton this month. 
  
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 Both Clinton and Trump have acknowledged that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union signaled a global economic frustration among working-class voters that could reverberate in the U.S. election. 
  
 “There is a lot of legitimate anxiety, fear and even anger in many parts of our country because people feel like the economy has failed them,” Clinton said in Denver on Tuesday. “I think this is going to be one of the defining issues in this election.” 
  
 Trump has seized on the historic Brexit vote to bolster his argument that voters are rising up against establishment leaders, saying Americans would reject the “global elite” and support his presidential candidacy. 
  
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 But Trump has broken with Republican Party orthodoxy in criticizing trade deals, and has threatened to slap tariffs on Mexican and Chinese imports. His rhetoric has drawn criticism from many economists, who say such practices could spark trade wars. 
  
 As Trump spoke, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is usually in sync with prominent Republicans on trade policy, said on Twitter: “Under Trump’s trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs, and a weaker economy.” |||||  
  
 Alexander Panetta , The Canadian Press 
  
  
  
  
  
 WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump has delivered his most explicit threat to smash the North American Free Trade Agreement just as the continent's three leaders gather to discuss building new ties. 
  
 If elected president, the presumptive Republican nominee said Tuesday he would inform Mexico and Canada of his desire to immediately renegotiate a better deal for the U.S. 
  
 He said their refusal would prompt him to invoke the agreement's Article 2205, which allows a party to withdraw on six months' notice. 
  
 "They're so used to having their own way," Trump said of America's neighbours. 
  
 "Not with Trump. They won't have their own way ... NAFTA was the worst trade deal in the history -- it's, like, the history -- of this country." 
  
 The warning came in an anti-globalization speech that solidified Trump's position as the most protectionist Republican presidential candidate in generations. 
  
 He listed a series of complaints about American trade policy as he read a pre-written address titled, "Declaring American Economic Independence." 
  
 It occurred on the eve of Wednesday's Three Amigos summit in Ottawa where the NAFTA leaders plan to announce closer co-operation in several areas, against the headwinds of economic nationalism now blowing on different continents. 
  
 For Trump, that growing resistance to global integration is cause to celebrate. 
  
 He saluted Britain's vote to leave the European Union. He even used a turn of phrase similar to one from anti-EU leader Nigel Farage, who taunted European colleagues Tuesday for mocking his Brexit vision: "You're not laughing now, are you?" 
  
 In a similar sneer at the forces of global integration, Trump said he'd spent years complaining about trade with China: "Nobody listened. But they're listening now." 
  
 Trump's two main complaints were about events shaped by the presidency of Bill Clinton, the spouse of his likely general-election opponent: NAFTA in 1993, and the lengthy negotiations that led to China entering the World Trade Organization in 2001. 
  
 He proposed seven remedies. 
  
 One is to withdraw from the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership plan. Another is to label China a currency manipulator and impose punitive tariffs on its products. 
  
 Redoing or rescinding NAFTA is another. 
  
 In his speech, Trump never mentioned Canada specifically. Even after the speech, his campaign issued talking points complaining about the trade practices of Mexico -- but not of Canada. 
  
 Yet one trade lawyer in Toronto said the policies he espouses have clear implications for the northern neighbour; three-quarters of Canadian exports go to the U.S. 
  
 "He is clearly the most protectionist presidential candidate, probably, since the 1920s," Mark Warner said. 
  
 "Presidential powers are limited but a president with this kind of a trade agenda could easily make life difficult for trading partners by pushing presidential executive powers to the limit. The worst case for Canada is that he might push (Hillary) Clinton to be more protectionist in border states if the contest narrows." 
  
 Nearly two dozen consecutive polls show him losing the popular vote to Clinton. 
  
 His comeback hopes appear to hinge on the anti-trade, anti-elite, anti-foreign sentiment of the likes that propelled Farage's forces to a stunning win. 
  
 Trump has repeatedly stated his desire to redraw the electoral map. 
  
 As a case in point, he delivered his trade speech Tuesday in Pennsylvania -- a state that hasn't voted Republican in decades. He'd need that state and other northern, former industrial powerhouses like Michigan and Ohio, if he loses states with growing Latino populations like Florida, Virginia and Colorado. 
  
 Even if he's elected, Warner said, a protectionist president would find himself in a complex fight. 
  
 He said Trump could seek to leave NAFTA, but would need Congress to snap tariffs back into place. Such a move would almost guarantee a lawsuit over the extent of presidential power, he said. 
  
 Warner said presidents do have the power to implement emergency actions without Congress, and can get the Department of Commerce and International Trade to ramp up trade-remedy cases. 
  
 Trump's domestic opponents were saying far worse things about his speech. 
  
 They called it economically illiterate and hypocritical. 
  
 After all, they pointed to reports of Trump-branded clothes being made in Mexico, ties made in China, shirts made in Bangladesh, furniture made in Turkey and Germany, picture frames from India, and bar products from Slovenia. 
  
 This self-styled defender of workers has also testified in a court case about using illegal labour in the project to build the skyscraper that now houses his campaign headquarters. 
  
 Polish workers who were to be paid a few dollars an hour for demolition work in the 1980s complained about their supervisors withholding payment on the Trump Tower project. 
  
 Now the Trump of 2016 is campaigning against the wealthy international trade-championing elite. 
  
 "Globalization has made the financial elite who donate to politicians very wealthy. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache," he said. 
  
 "The era of economic surrender will finally be over ... America will be independent once more." 
  
 His opponents might not find themselves on the firmest ground if they question his consistency. When they first ran for president, both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama endorsed a renegotiate-or-rescind approach to NAFTA. 
  
 On Tuesday, the White House was lauding the old agreement. 
  
 Obama spokesman Josh Earnest did so while warning against making simple comparisons between the situation in North America and Europe -- given that continent's far more elaborate integration featuring open borders, free movement of labour, and a multinational currency. 
  
 "Countries in North America have pursued a different strategy, and one that has worked well for us," he said. 
  
 "It is a strategy that has enhanced the economies of all of our countries, it's enhanced the national security of all of our countries and it certainly has made North America the most successful continent in the world." |||||
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– The British aren't the only ones who want to rip up trade deals. Donald Trump, speaking at an aluminum scrap company in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, slammed the NAFTA pact with Canada and Mexico and warned that as president, he will either seek a better deal or scrap the deal entirely, reports Reuters. "I'm going tell our NAFTA partners that I intend to immediately renegotiate the terms of that agreement to get a better deal for our workers. And I don't mean just a little bit better, I mean a lot better," Trump said, describing the 1993 pact as one of the "worst legacies" of Bill Clinton's administration. "They're so used to having their own way," Trump said of Canada and Mexico, warning that he will be prepared to trigger the pact's Article 2205, which gives six months' notice of withdrawal. Trump's "Declaring American Economic Independence" speech—delivered the day before the "Three Amigos" NAFTA summit in Ottawa —was his most detailed talk on trade yet, and highlighted his firmly protectionist policies, CTV reports. Trump praised Britain's vote to leave the European Union and strongly criticized both the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal and China's 2001 entry to the World Trade Organization.