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A second round of NAFTA negotiations gets underway in a country that has long served as Donald Trump's political whipping boy. Increasingly, there are indications Mexico is willing to whip back.

Trump and Trudeau agreed in a phone call on Thursday that they hoped to settle NAFTA negotiations before the end of the year.

If Donald Trump attempts the proverbial gun-to-the-temple negotiating strategy on NAFTA, how should America's neighbours respond: Keep sitting there, or walk away from the bargaining table?

U.S. President Donald Trump is again suggesting that NAFTA be terminated, this time saying that both Canada and Mexico are being "very difficult".

NAFTA countries have signed a confidentiality agreement designed to prevent leaks during the NAFTA negotiations, with a list of rules to protect details of the offers they submit to each other.

Donald Trump has threatened to blow up NAFTA less than one week into the renegotiation of the trade agreement, providing an early indication that the upcoming talks might occur under a cloud of menace

North American countries have concluded their first round of negotiations toward a new continental trade agreement.

The U.S. appears to be signalling that President Donald Trump's vow to aggressively promote a "buy American, hire American" agenda is not open to discussion during negotiations on a new NAFTA.

The future of Canada's more than one million automotive jobs has emerged as a critical part of what's at stake at the NAFTA renegotiation table in Washington.

"Trump has this sort of old-fashioned theory of negotiations, which is that the big guy always wins. It's not the way it works," says Ted Alden, senior fellow at the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations.

U.S. chief negotiator John Melle has sung NAFTA's praises in the past.

Chrystia Freeland will push for additional labour and environmental sections when she shares broad strokes Monday of Canada's goals for the upcoming NAFTA talks.

The federal government has spent a lot of time in the U.S. of late, making Canada's case in advance of this week's long-awaited NAFTA talks.

U.S. President Donald Trump's stance on climate change may end up being the biggest stumbling block in NAFTA talks when it comes to the environment.

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