Markets and foreign governments braced for the possibility that he would quickly follow through on threats to impose 25 percent tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports and ratchet up levies on Chinese goods.
On the first day of his second term, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from this pact.
Panama has complained to the United Nations over US President Donald Trump's "worrying" threat to seize the Panama Canal, even as it launched an audit of the Hong Kong-linked operator of two ports on the interoceanic waterway.
Trump promised to take back the strategically significant waterway, which is operated by a Panamanian authority, and the country has bristled in response.