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发帖数: 2469 | 1 Negotiators fail to reach NAFTA deal, say talks to resume
David Ljunggren, Anthony Esposito
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior American, Canadian and Mexican officials on
Friday ended a week of talks without a deal to modernize NAFTA, agreeing
instead to resume negotiations soon, ahead of a deadline next week issued by
a key U.S. congressional leader.
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to reporters after talks
with senior U.S. legislators on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., May 10
, 2018. REUTERS/David Ljunggren
After meeting for barely half an hour on Friday, the top Mexican and
Canadian politicians involved in the talks to update the 1994 trade pact
made it clear that major differences remained.
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said officials would continue
working in Washington while the Canadian and Mexican ministers returned home
for consultations.
“We plan to meet again as needed which I think will be soon ... the
negotiation will take as long as it takes to get a good deal,” she told
reporters after the meeting.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer walks towards reporters ahead of
a meeting with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts to discuss talks on
modernizing the NAFTA trade deal, in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 11, 2018.
REUTERS/David Ljunggren
Friday’s talks were the first involving all three of the top officials in
the NAFTA negotiations - Freeland, Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso
Guajardo and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer - since the latest
round started on Monday.
Pressure to reach a deal increased this week after U.S. House of
Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said he needed to be notified of a new
NAFTA by May 17 to give the current U.S. Congress a chance of passing it.
Mexico has not agreed to a U.S. proposal to boost North American content for
autos made in the NAFTA region, one of the main sticking points. Guajardo
said his team tried hard during the week to bridge the gap.
“We’re not going to sacrifice the quality of an agreement because of
pressure of time. We’ll keep engaged,” he said.
Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo delivers a news conference at
Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Mexico May 1, 2018. REUTERS
/Henry Romero
Guajardo, who wants to reach an agreement on all the principal aspects of a
modernized NAFTA before sealing a new deal, says plenty of other issues were
outstanding.
U.S. President Donald Trump has called NAFTA a “disaster” and blames it
for the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to lower-cost Mexico. He has
repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the 1994 trade pact if it is not
reworked to his liking.
Drafting new rules of origin governing what percentage of a car needs to be
sourced from the NAFTA region to avoid tariffs has been at the center of the
talks.
It forms a key plank of the Trump administration’s aim to boost jobs and
investment in the United States.
Officials and industry sources say the three sides have been gradually
narrowing their differences on autos.
However, several other major issues are still unresolved, including U.S.
demands for a sunset clause that would allow NAFTA to expire if it is not
renegotiated every five years, and elimination of settlement panels for
trade disputes.
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