USTR touts deficit reduction as top NAFTA renegotiation goal

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is making a big deal of one key objective in its priorities for a renegotiated NAFTA: Reducing trade deficits. In its press release on the summary of its negotiating objectives , as well as on Twitter, USTR says the U.S. “for the first time” has “included deficit reduction as a specific objective for the NAFTA negotiations.” For the first time USTR has included deficit reduction as a specific objective for the #NAFTA negotiations...