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Eugene

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Tue May 29, 2018, 01:24 PM May 2018

Delays and 'poison pills': team Trump runs out of road in NAFTA talks

Source: Reuters

BUSINESS NEWS MAY 29, 2018 / 1:06 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Delays and 'poison pills': team Trump runs out of road in NAFTA talks

David Lawder, David Ljunggren
7 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is running out of time to deliver a revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) he promised for this year and people involved in the talks say the crunch is largely of his administration’s own making.

Negotiators, industry lobbyists, trade experts and lawmakers briefed on the talks described how precious months passed before the U.S team presented its proposals and how the talks stalled because the demands far exceeded what Canada and Mexico had expected and Washington signaled no readiness to compromise.

In the end, an unusually tight timetable allowed little space to bridge differences on the core issues, such as U.S. and regional content requirements for the auto industry.

Talks started last August with a goal to conclude in just four months, but as a May 17 notification deadline to allow the current Republican-led U.S. Congress to approve a new agreement before year end passed, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer warned a deal was “nowhere near close.”

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Delays and 'poison pills': team Trump runs out of road in NAFTA talks (Original Post) Eugene May 2018 OP
Well, I don't know about you Control-Z May 2018 #1

Control-Z

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1. Well, I don't know about you
Tue May 29, 2018, 02:09 PM
May 2018

but I, for one, am shocked. Spanky, not prepared? What happened to that fine-tuned machine of his? Such a disappointment. SMH

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