Posted on 08/31/2018 1:31:11 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The U.S. and Canada failed on Friday to reach a final deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) despite long discussions this week.
The two nations plan to take up where they left off on Wednesday.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the "talks were constructive, and we made progress."
"Our officials are continuing to work toward agreement," Lighthizer said.
Meanwhile, the U.S. started the 90-day clock on the U.S.-Mexico agreement, with the intent to include Canada before time runs out.
Without Canada a new NAFTA agreement won't get through Congress.
Getting a deal done within three months would give Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto a chance to sign the agreement at the end of November before leaving office.
Earlier in the day, the Toronto Star released off-the-record comments President Trump made about Canada on Thursday during an Oval Office interview with Bloomberg.
Trump said he would not give Canada any concessions in the talks and that a possible deal on trade with Canada would be “totally on our terms.”
Despite the rough start to the morning's discussions, Canadian officials said they were making progress but there was disagreement on dairy and investor-state dispute rules.
The Canada deal is called Fair And Reciprocal Trade
or FART
Me thinks the little boy of the North really screwed up..
The Canadians monkeyed with Trump!!
I think Trump is carefully guiding NAFTA to an end.
Stop talking!! Tariff their cars and tell them to go to hell.
Tariff everything these dip$hits ship our way at the highest level, put their economy in the crapper where it belongs. America first.
Time is OUT. It is over!! Good Bye, Your are LATE!! You screwed up. You made an error. Suck it up buttercup.
shut it down. The dead line was clear. Let;s not stat moving goal posts.
So maybe we just agree with Mexico and the arrogant but dumb Canadians can just suck it up? See how their exclusion from the market helps their government uber alles Socialism?
Someone please post a meme of the Borg, resistance to PDJT is futile...
Exactly!
WTH is this resuming nonsense. I thought today was Trumps deadline?
“The Canadians monkeyed with Trump!!”
Yeh, those “cotton pickers” sure did....
What would you like the tariff to be on the 2 million barrels of oil Canada ships to the US every day.
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