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Think About the U.K. in Nafta. Really.
If Trump is going to renegotiate a big U.S. trade deal, why not include post-Brexit Britain?
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The visit to Washington on Friday of U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May makes her the first foreign leader to meet the new U.S. president. There are already reports that President Donald Trump may get a return audience in Britain, full of royal pomp, sometime this summer. The two leaders are sure in a hurry -- and for good reason.
In a couple of months, May plans to trigger Article 50 of the European Union treaty, starting two years of exit negotiations from the EU. The prospect of a trade agreement with the world's largest economy and the U.K.'s historic ally would bolster confidence in post-Brexit Britain, and be an important feather in May's cap as she faces scrutiny from her own Parliament.