There's an 80 per cent chance of a new NAFTA agreement in principle within a month, the Mexican minister leading the file said on Monday, April 9, 2018.
The top U.S. trade official says he's optimistic a NAFTA agreement could be reached soon, with all sides racing against the clock to complete negotiations before political uncertainties set in this spring.
Canada’s diplomatic corps has teamed up with the government's top statisticians to rapidly deploy facts across the border that can counter Trump's false statements. The partnership between data geeks and diplomats was hatched by the federal Foreign Affairs Department along with the federal government's statistical agency, according to an internal briefing note obtained by National Observer.
Canada's counter-proposals on controversial American demands for a renewed NAFTA were not rejected out of hand by the United States at talks Thursday, providing a glimmer of hope that the continental trade pact may yet be saved.
Canada will be hosting an annoyed and angry United States as the sixth round of talks in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation unfold over the coming week.
The latest round of NAFTA talks has begun without any substantive negotiating on key sticking points in a low-key meeting contrasting markedly with the previous round filled with bombshell demands and public scoldings.
Canada and Mexico are prepared to engage the United States on one of its most contentious demands for NAFTA, in an early indication that proposals currently deemed non-starters could, in theory, be redesigned into something all three countries can live with.
Stephen Harper has expressed alarm over his successor's handling of NAFTA negotiations with the United States, with the former prime minister declaring the negotiations in real peril in a memo titled, "Napping on NAFTA."
American policy-makers admit they have not worked to analyze the economic impact of the end of the NAFTA, even as President Donald Trump threatens to cancel the agreement.
When it came time for the handshakes at the end of five days of intensive negotiations in Ottawa, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland wasn't taking any chances.
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.