Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo started intensive NAFTA talks in Washington yesterday.
Freeland sounded upbeat as she said there were “good progress” made on the “rules of origin in our conversations with the U.S., with Mexico, and in our trilateral conversation.” But she declined to comment on whether there would be a deal within the next three weeks, as the US is pushing for.
Freeland just noted that “our commitment is to get a really good win-win-win outcome as quickly as possible and…we’ll work as long as it takes to get a great deal”.
The talks will continue today.
