Author: Josh Wingrove
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US says cease-fire on table for Hamas as aid drops begin
Israel has essentially agreed to a six-week cease-fire if Hamas agrees to release hostages categorized as vulnerable, United States officials said, after American and Jordanian planes completed an airdrop of food into Gaza. The path to a deal, as of Saturday, is straightforward and up to Hamas, the officials said, briefing reporters on condition of…
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Trump NAFTA termination vow pressures Congress to bless new deal
President Donald Trump, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, participate in the USMCA signing ceremony last week in Buenos Aires, Argentina. President Donald Trump’s threat to terminate the existing North American Free Trade Agreement puts pressure on U.S. lawmakers to limit the changes they want in a new…
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NAFTA talks restart under pressure from Trump and Congress
Talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement resumed as U.S. and Canadian negotiators push to strike a deal amid President Donald Trump’s threats to walk away. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland arrived for talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington Wednesday after a series of back-to-back meetings last week failed…
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Canada has NAFTA wiggle room but will resist on one big issue
The rush is on for Canada to get a NAFTA deal, though a key stumbling block remains. As analysts began parsing summaries of a partial U.S.-Mexico deal announced Monday, most details didn’t jump out as deal-breakers for the other partner in the 24-year-old continental trade pact. The problems instead lie in a series of NAFTA…