A resident walks in front of the United States border inspection station in the United States, bordering Mexico, on Aug. 16, 2017. According to a recent report released by Community and Economic Development Department of the Imperial County bordering between the United States and Mexico, more than 52,000 crossing the border on a daily basis for working or shopping. And the total spending in Imperial County in 2016 on retail, food, and drink (spending in restaurants and bars was excluded) was 1.93 billion U.S. dollars. Negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday kicked off here the first round of NAFTA renegotiations that would last until Sunday, amid widespread uncertainty and anxiety over the future of the 23-year-old trilateral trade deal. While President Donald Trump has described the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as the "worst trade deal in history" and vowed to fix it, Americans are split on whether the 23-year-old deal is good or bad. Early this year, a Gallup poll showed 48 percent of Americans said NAFTA was good for the United States, while 46 percent said it was bad. (Xinhua/Guo Shuang)
