As NAFTA negotiators meet in DC, MC11 could end without a joint declaration – and without Lighthizer
The focus on trade this week is divided between Washington, DC, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, where trade ministers some 5,000 miles south of the U.S. capital are meeting to advance the World Trade Organization’s agenda -- a meeting U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is expected to leave early. The U.S. could also keep the ministerial from ending with a joint declaration. Talks on a draft declaration broke down in Geneva in part because the U.S. pushed back against language that...