Headline Roundup September 29, 2018
Canada and US Close to NAFTA Deal
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Bloomberg
U.S. and Canadian negotiators are close to a deal on Nafta and there’s optimism it will be reached by the Sunday deadline -- an outcome that would avoid an impasse that imperils $500 billion in annual trade, people familiar with the talks said.
There’s renewed urgency to nail down a new North American Free Trade Agreement that could be published by Sunday so it can be signed by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto before he leaves office, the people said. The U.S. and Mexico reached their own agreement in August,...
The U.S. and Canada will likely wrap up negotiations about a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement this weekend after a month of tumultuous talks, according to a tweet from a Bloomberg News White House reporter.
The two nations are currently working to avoid a fight that could jeopardize $500 billion in annual trade, according to the tweet.
Vox
The Trump administration’s self-imposed deadline to bring Canada into a revised North American Free Trade Agreement is Sunday — and there’s a chance negotiators will miss it.
There was a little optimism late Friday, after Reuters reported that Mexico and the US decided to hold off publishing the text of its United States-Mexico bilateral trade deal on Friday — a signal that both weren’t quite ready to move ahead without Canada.
But the prospects of a last-minute agreement with Canada remain grim after weeks of a negotiating impasse over a...
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