U.S., Mexican Officials Meet in Push for Nafta Car Deal
- Push comes as time runs out to get deal OK’d by this Congress
- Trump says autoworkers will be happy with updated Nafta
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U.S. and Mexican senior officials are meeting in Washington this week in an effort to break an impasse over auto-production rules in an updated Nafta, according to two people familiar with the negotiations.
Mexican Deputy Economy Minister for Trade Juan Carlos Baker is meeting with Deputy U.S. Trade Representative C.J. Mahoney and other USTR officials to review Mexico’s automotive proposal, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private. The issue of autos has been a key sticking point in nine months of talks between the U.S., Mexico and Canada to revise the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.