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Seade: Sunset, Chapter 20 under discussion; talks could wrap up this week

August 22, 2018 at 4:42 PM
State-to-state dispute settlement in NAFTA and the U.S. demand for a five-year sunset clause are among the last issues being hashed out as talks come down to the wire, Jesús Seade, chief negotiator for Mexican president-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Wednesday. Seade and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer for a fifth consecutive week of bilateral talks. Guajardo emerged from the USTR building shortly after Seade following roughly five hours of discussions,...


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