# Professor Ari Ginsberg explains why businesses should prepare for the impact of the US withdrawing from NAFTA

1 Faculty News October 17, 2017 ![Inc. logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032187.jpg?itok=TSGPgNt6)>

Excerpt from [Inc.](https://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/nafta-hangs-in-balance-october-2017.html) -- "[Ari Ginsberg](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/ari-ginsberg), a profess of management at New York University's Stern School of Business, says it's smart for companies to be drawing up Plan Bs-- in anticipation of the changes Trump has proposed, and the impact they might have on expenses. 'It doesn't hurt to spend time you otherwise wouldn't on contingency plans,' he suggests."

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