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Trade Official: U.S. To Seek New Market Access From Canada, Not Mexico

July 6, 2012 at 1:33 AM
SAN DIEGO--A U.S. trade official this week said the U.S. plans to seek new market access commitments from Canada in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations once that country joins the negotiations, but not from Mexico because it has already fully opened its market to the U.S. under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). "We have actually a comprehensive agreement already with Mexico, so there's not new market access that we would be seeking because we already have 100...

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