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Lighthizer: 'No doubt’ Democrats will support passage of USMCA

By Isabelle Icso  / November 30, 2018 at 11:30 AM
BUENOS AIRES -- U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is confident the trilateral trade deal inked by the U.S., Mexico and Canada will garner enough support in Congress -- and he is adamant that “a very high number of Democrats” will vote for the implementing legislation. “I want to remind everyone that this was negotiated from the beginning to be a bipartisan agreement,” Lighthizer said on Nov. 30 after the signing of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on the sidelines of the G20...

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