Paula Dwyer , Columnist

Two Experts Envision Trade Under Trump: Goodbye, Wal-Mart

If Trump has his way on trade, consumers, companies and workers would suffer. Not to mention the economy.

August 30, 2016 at 1:00 PM UTC

Paula Dwyer is a senior editor with the New York editing hub, focusing on daily and long-form enterprise. She was London bureau chief for Businessweek and Washington economics editor for the New York Times, and is a co-author of “Take on the Street: How to Fight for Your Financial Future.

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Donald Trump threatens to revoke the North American Free Trade Agreement and impose stiff tariffs on imports from China or products made by U.S. companies abroad. Hillary Clinton opposes the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership that President Barack Obama negotiated. And on Sunday, Germany's economy minister said free-trade talks between the European Union and the U.S. had failed.

With open trade in such bad odor, that raises the question: What would the U.S. economy look like without the trade deals of the last 70 years?