Inside U.S. Trade - 12/06/2019
Seade: Little progress on USMCA after a day of meetings with Lighthizer
As U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement advocates push for a vote on the trade deal before the end of the year, Mexico’s chief negotiator said little real progress had been made in resolving a handful of outstanding differences with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer during nearly seven hours of meetings on Wednesday. Lighthizer last week presented Mexican Under Secretary for North America Jesús Seade proposed changes to the trade deal’s labor, environmental, pharmaceutical and enforcement provisions that the administration had negotiated with a...