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When President Trump signed his new Nafta accord last month with the leaders of Mexico and Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau almost didn’t show up. The reason: Mr. Trump still hasn’t lifted the steel and aluminum tariffs as he promised he’d do if America’s two neighbors signed a revised trade deal.

A month later they’re still waiting. The delay is damaging the U.S. economy and America’s credibility as a trading partner. Though Mr. Trump likes to use tariff threats as a negotiating tactic, his Administration also promised relief from the levies he imposed under Section 232 of U.S. trade law.

In July U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told a Senate hearing that “resolving the NAFTA issue—we would expect, or hope, that we would resolve the steel and the aluminum issues with both Mexico and Canada.”

Last March no less than the President himself tweeted that “tariffs on Steel and Aluminum will only come off if new & fair NAFTA agreement is signed.”

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When the market was riding high, companies bought back shares at a furious pace, juiced by the tax savings they reaped from the December 2017 passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The law enriched companies by slashing the corporate tax rate to 21% from 35% and making it easier for firms such as Apple to shift foreign earnings to the U.S.

S&P 500 companies bought back $583.4 billion worth of their own shares in the first nine months of 2018, according to S&P Dow Jones Indices, up 52.6% from the same period in 2017 and just shy of a full-year record.