Services industry says NAFTA should ban data localization, cover new offerings

The Coalition of Services Industries is calling on the Trump administration to use the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation to ban data localization and to cover so-called new services -- the former was a contentious issue in the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and the latter remains an issue in the stalled Trade in Services Agreement negotiations. In comments submitted to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the group also said that the U.S. should make sure that it receives...