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Commerce secretary says NAFTA talks could produce two separate bilateral deals or one trilateral

March 10, 2017 at 10:42 AM
The U.S. believes NAFTA could be renegotiated as two separate bilaterals or another three-way deal, though Mexico still hopes for trilateral discussions, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal said Friday. The two appeared together to announce a new round of negotiations in a long-running sugar dispute and took questions from reporters about NAFTA timing and other issues. Asked if the U.S. plans to continue three-way discussions as the process of reopening NAFTA gets underway, Ross...


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