US-Canada Trade Talks Break Up Without NAFTA Deal

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland

Talks between the US and Canada about amending the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have ended for the week without reaching a deal.

US officials said they would meet their Canadian counterparts again next week in an effort to reach agreement.

For now, the US plans to move forward with a deal with Mexico on terms reached earlier in the week.

It’s not clear what this means for the trilateral agreement, which governs more than $1tr (£770bn) in trade.

The White House had faced a Friday deadline to provide Congress with the necessary 90 days’ notice that it intended to enter into a new trade agreement and still have the new NAFTA deal signed by 1 December, the day Mexico’s new left-wing President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador takes office.





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