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Plus: Administration seeks 10 percent hike in USTR funding to pursue “ambitious” agenda. Canada pitches rules-of-origin ideas to Capitol Hill and stakeholders, raising Lighthizer’s ire . Following the NAFTA redo’s round six and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer’s negative response, Canada took its 14-page PowerPoint presentation on automotive rules of origin, a NAFTA negotiating sticking point, to congressional committees and interested U.S. industry and labor leaders. The presentation, obtained by Inside U.S. Trade, lays out what Canada is calling a...