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Ross says 'easiest' issues in NAFTA talks will be those not in original deal

June 1, 2017 at 4:05 PM
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on May 31 said "the easiest issues" to be addressed in North American Free Trade Agreement modernization talks "should be" those that were not part of the existing agreement, which entered into force in 1994. "The easiest ones will be the ones that weren't contained in the original agreement because that's new territory; that's not anybody giving up anything," Ross said at an event hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Institute. "And by and large, those should...

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