Wyden: Administration ‘committed’ to doing away with NAFTA’s Chapter 19

Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) said on Tuesday that administration officials briefing the panel on NAFTA renegotiation objectives this week assured him that they are committed to making the deal’s Chapter 19, on dispute settlement, “part of yesteryear.” Wyden told reporters that during the meeting, the first for new U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as he and other administration officials lay the groundwork for NAFTA’s renegotiation, he “asked specifically was the administration committed in a renegotiated NAFTA...