Canada, Mexico hope for U.S. flexibility as NAFTA negotiators head into auto talks

MONTREAL -- The U.S. this week must show it is willing to engage and compromise on its NAFTA partners’ ideas to break a deadlock in the talks on a new automotive rule of origin, Canadian and Mexican officials said. Both countries said separately that they would not make “formal” counteroffers to the Trump administration’s proposal on the rule of origin, which called for 50 percent of a North American vehicle to be manufactured in the United States, increasing the regional...