Trump Threatens to Break NAFTA's Successor. Here's What Happens Next

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Three nations make up the largest trading bloc on Earth — Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. And there's exactly ONE railroad that physically connects all three. One. Its headquarters? Calgary, Alberta. It's Canadian. It's called Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) — the first and only single-line railway linking Canada, the U.S., and Mexico, created when Canadian Pacific merged with Kansas City Southern in April 2023 (approved by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board). It runs ~20,000 route miles from the Canadian Pacific coast, through the American heartland and Kansas City, down to the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico's Pacific coast. It carries the grain, the autos, and the freight of the continent — the spine of North American trade. And it's not alone. Canadian National (CN) is the LONGEST railway network in North America — the only one touching three coasts (Atlantic, Pacific, Gulf), with 31,000+ km of track. In 1998 it bought America's Illinois Central — the historic "Main Line of Mid-Am

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