US | NAFTA Bush Boosts Battered NAFTA at Summit Trading partners meet in New Orleans By Peter Fearon Posted Apr 22, 2008 3:25 AM CDT Copied President Bush visits with students and teachers from New Orleans schools, Monday, at Louis Armstrong International Airport. The president traveled to New Orleans to attend the fourth annual North American Leaders' Summit. (AP Photo/Judi Bottoni) President Bush yesterday opened a two-day economic summit in New Orleans with Mexico and Canada amid growing hostility to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is widely blamed for US job losses. Bush is using the meeting with the trillion-dollar trading partners to highlight support for NAFTA as the 14-year-pact is repeatedly roasted on the Democratic campaign trail. "We want to find ways to convince the American people that this is an arrangement that's worked for us and it's also worked for our neighbors," said a White House spokesman. "It's a win-win situation." Read These Next "Admiral Piett" of the Star Wars universe died from COVID. Trump voter who supported mass deportations could be deported herself. Rescuer in floods gets a poignant question. Michael Douglas 'had to stop'—but he's not retired. Report an error