It’s Crunch Week (Again) for Nafta With U.S. and Canada at Odds

09/17/2018

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Josh Wingrove | Bloomberg

It’s Crunch Week (Again) for Nafta With U.S. and Canada at Odds

U.S.-Canada trade talks are poised to come to a head this week, as negotiators bear down on their next deadline amid President Donald Trump’s threats to cut his largest export market out of the deal. High-level negotiations are expected to resume this week in a bid to reach a deal for Canada to remain in the three-nation North American Free Trade Agreement, a Canadian government official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Congress is pressing for Canada to be kept in Nafta, after the U.S. and Mexico struck their own deal last month. Read more here.