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Lawmakers insist NAFTA should remain a trilateral deal

August 27, 2018 at 3:36 PM
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle maintained on Monday that the U.S. should include Canada in a modernized North American Free Trade Agreement after President Trump announced the U.S. and Mexico had reached a bilateral deal he called the U.S.-Mexico trade agreement. “I think it's an elegant name,” Trump said in a televised phone conversation with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. “We will see whether or not we decide to put up Canada, or just do a separate deal...

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