Trump Aims to Model New Trade Deals on Revised Nafta

U.S. will use pact as a template to impose new priorities, from discouraging agreements with China to adopting U.S. standards on labor

The U.S. and Canada reached a last-minute deal late on Sept. 30 to revise the North American Free Trade Agreement. We look at what it is and what's changed. Photo: Getty Images.

Jacob M. Schlesinger and

Josh Zumbrun

Oct. 4, 2018 1:56 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—The Trump administration aims to step up trade talks with other countries, using its new pact with Canada and Mexico as a template to redefine rules on everything from foreign exchange and labor markets to how U.S. partners do business with China.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer called the new North American trade deal a “paradigm-shifting model” of American policy that sends a tough message to the rest of the world. The U.S. will be less worried about running afoul of the World Trade Organization, a...