Lighthizer rejects Canada’s auto rules-of-origin ideas, laments slow pace of talks

MONTREAL -- U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Monday closed a sixth NAFTA negotiating round here by roundly rejecting a Canadian auto rules-of-origin proposal and other new ideas advanced by Ottawa, acknowledging some progress in the talks but lamenting their slow pace and stressing the urgency of speeding them up. Lighthizer also blasted Canada’s recent World Trade Organization challenge of U.S. trade remedy laws, suggesting that buying into it would mean “24 years ago the United States effectively gave away...