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A deal to replace NAFTA still eluded U.S. and Canada on Friday with just hours before President Trump\u2019s deadline for an agreement, the top Canadian negotiator said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not there yet,\u201d Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters in Washington.<\/p>\n
Ms. Freeland said they were \u201cworking hard\u201d but that her negotiation team was not satisfied that the deal was good for Canada.<\/p>\n
Mr. Trump set a Friday deadline for Canada to agree to join the U.S.-Mexico deal to replace the three-way North American Free Trade Agreement. The replacement deal was announced Monday.<\/p>\n
If Canada is out, Mr. Trump threatened to submit the U.S.-Mexico deal with Congress and hit Canada with a 25 percent tariff on cars.<\/p>\n
Ms. Freeland\u2019s remarks after the morning negotiation session threw cold water on early optimism voiced by both sides of the talks.<\/p>\n
She said the negotiation would continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs has been the case form the very beginning, Canada is a country that is good at finding win-win compromises. Having said that, in trade negotiations [and] in this negotiation, we always stand up for the national interest,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd that is what we are going to continue to do. We are looking for a good deal, not just any deal, and we will only agree to a deal that is a good deal for Canada. We are not there yet.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A deal to replace NAFTA still eluded U.S. and Canada on Friday with just hours before President Trump’s deadline for an agreement, the top Canadian negotiator said. A deal to replace NAFTA still eluded U.S. and Canada on Friday with just hours before President Trump\u2019s deadline for an agreement, the top Canadian negotiator said. \u201cWe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1264,2881],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-canada","tag-chrystia-freeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}