又星期五了，老川忙着找叛徒／内奸没工夫管NAFTA DEADLINE？

[New Person]

Freeland returning to NAFTA talks Friday in quest for compromise
Foreign affairs minister 'confident' deal can be reached as new deadline looms
Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Sep 06, 2018 9:15 PM ET | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks to the media as trade talks continue at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in Washington. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press)
Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will return to the NAFTA negotiating table in Washington on Friday, working toward a compromise in ongoing talks that she described as "productive" and "constructive."

Freeland made the comments late Thursday after a brief meeting with the United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to review the work of negotiators throughout the day.

"It was important to discuss a couple of issues face to face and our officials now continue to work very hard and we've agreed that we'll meet again tomorrow," Freeland told reporters.

• Analysis
  Canada's food sector counting on NAFTA negotiators to keep them in the game

• Canada's economy is set to slow down even with a NAFTA deal, economists say

Freeland maintained the same upbeat tone she had exhibited earlier in the day, and since arriving in Washington earlier this week to reboot talks with the Trump administration.

"We really are confident, as we have been from the outset, that a deal which is good for Canada, good for the United States and good for Mexico is possible," she said.

'Unjustified and Illegal'
Canada and the U.S. need to present an agreed-upon text to the U.S. Congress by Oct. 1 in order to join the deal the Trump administration signed with Mexico.

U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to move ahead on a deal that excludes Canada, but he also needs a win on trade ahead of midterm elections in November that will test his ability to keep control of Congress.

Trump has already imposed hefty tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum, using a section of U.S. trade law that gives him the authority in the name of national security.

Freeland reiterated her view Thursday that the fate of those tariffs was separate from the NAFTA talks, and she urged the administration to lift the "unjustified and illegal" action.

Looming deadline
During the day, she and Lighthizer pored over results from their front-line negotiators who held a long stretch of talks that started Wednesday night and finished in the early morning hours of Thursday.

Freeland offered few specifics, sticking to her mantra of not wanting to negotiate in public — an agreement struck with the tough-talking Lighthizer as an act of good faith.

The two sides still have to resolve differences on three key issues: dairy, culture and the Chapter 19 dispute-resolution mechanism.

With files from The Canadian Press

 

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月底见吧。

 

[冷笑9声]

月底见吧。

据说川普要去整日本了。。这老头，比刘强东能折腾。

 

[New Person]

老川推特理政，一天也就那么几推。只要给他找点事，SHIFT一下他的注意力就可以了。

 

[urus]

NAFTA 已死，有事烧纸

 

[ccc]

据说川普要去整日本了。。这老头，比刘强东能折腾。

全方位出击。

 

[冷笑9声]

老川推特理政，一天也就那么几推。只要给他找点事，SHIFT一下他的注意力就可以了。

我一直说川朴政策的混乱不是因为所谓商人的狡诈，谋略更谈不上。。。只是一个心怀粉丝的网红与体制的角力罢了。。看见了吧，水门记者说的是同一个思路，只是更狠一点。

 

[DavidWuu]

小看他了，人家虽然70多，手下厉害。他是个个击破，先找软的捏，会把握时机，有剧本，还会临时改，会交易，会装疯演戏，没实力没能力的只能挨打

 

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[New Person]

又星期五了，老川还是没找到叛徒／内奸，来点UPDATE吧。

Canada prepared to play deadline spoiler in NAFTA talks: source
In the face of mounting pressure to wrap up NAFTA negotiations by the end of the month, a senior source suggests Canada is comfortable with missing that deadline.

The source who spoke to CBC News on background, due to the sensitivity of the talks, said the external political pressure "is not a good enough reason," for Canada to be forced into a fast finish.

Mexican negotiators are pushing for an agreement to be formally signed by the leaders of all three countries before December 1st, the day Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, takes office.

If outgoing president Enrique Pena Nieto signs the agreement, it will, among other things, give AMLO some domestic political cover for unpopular aspects of the pact.

In order for that Dec. 1 deadline to be met, a series of legal hurdles in the U.S. must be cleared first.

The next step in that process is getting American lawmakers the text of a proposed agreement before Oct. 1, to begin a formal review.

The source said Canada is willing to try to accommodate the timeline, but is prepared to keep talking past the end of this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to morph NAFTA into a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, if Canada is unwilling to sign on to a deal on his terms.

Last month, Trump announced the U.S. and Mexico had reached an agreement in principle.

A bilateral deal?
Trump plans to rename the agreement USM, which stands for United States and Mexico, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Trump reportedly said he would add a 'C' for Canada depending on what happens at the negotiating table.

On Thursday, Mexico's chief NAFTA negotiator, Kenneth Smith Ramos, added his voice to the pressure campaign.

"Mexico stated from the beginning of the negotiation that the ideal scenario is for NAFTA to remain trilateral," Smith Ramos wrote on twitter.

"We hope the U.S. and Canada will conclude their bilateral negotiation shortly. If that is not possible we are ready to advance bilaterally with the U.S ... the agreement in principle that we closed with the U.S. is positive for Mexico because it preserves free trade and modernizes our trade agreement ..."

Despite the threats of leaving Canada behind, there are significant questions about whether NAFTA can even be changed into a bilateral agreement.

U.S. members of congress granted the Trump administration the authority to re-negotiate a trilateral agreement, and it is unclear whether the White House has the power to turn NAFTA into a two-way pact.

Members of congress from both parties have also said they would not support a new NAFTA without Canada's inclusion.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to return to Washington sometime next week for more high level negotiations with her U.S. counterparts.

A second source tells CBC News there is still a lot of technical work that negotiators need to grind through, adding talks are "slow."

 

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又星期五了，老川还是没找到叛徒／内奸，来点UPDATE吧。

Canada prepared to play deadline spoiler in NAFTA talks: source
In the face of mounting pressure to wrap up NAFTA negotiations by the end of the month, a senior source suggests Canada is comfortable with missing that deadline.

The source who spoke to CBC News on background, due to the sensitivity of the talks, said the external political pressure "is not a good enough reason," for Canada to be forced into a fast finish.

Mexican negotiators are pushing for an agreement to be formally signed by the leaders of all three countries before December 1st, the day Mexico's new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, takes office.

If outgoing president Enrique Pena Nieto signs the agreement, it will, among other things, give AMLO some domestic political cover for unpopular aspects of the pact.

In order for that Dec. 1 deadline to be met, a series of legal hurdles in the U.S. must be cleared first.

The next step in that process is getting American lawmakers the text of a proposed agreement before Oct. 1, to begin a formal review.

The source said Canada is willing to try to accommodate the timeline, but is prepared to keep talking past the end of this month.

U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to morph NAFTA into a bilateral agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, if Canada is unwilling to sign on to a deal on his terms.

Last month, Trump announced the U.S. and Mexico had reached an agreement in principle.

A bilateral deal?
Trump plans to rename the agreement USM, which stands for United States and Mexico, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. Trump reportedly said he would add a 'C' for Canada depending on what happens at the negotiating table.

On Thursday, Mexico's chief NAFTA negotiator, Kenneth Smith Ramos, added his voice to the pressure campaign.

"Mexico stated from the beginning of the negotiation that the ideal scenario is for NAFTA to remain trilateral," Smith Ramos wrote on twitter.

"We hope the U.S. and Canada will conclude their bilateral negotiation shortly. If that is not possible we are ready to advance bilaterally with the U.S ... the agreement in principle that we closed with the U.S. is positive for Mexico because it preserves free trade and modernizes our trade agreement ..."

Despite the threats of leaving Canada behind, there are significant questions about whether NAFTA can even be changed into a bilateral agreement.

U.S. members of congress granted the Trump administration the authority to re-negotiate a trilateral agreement, and it is unclear whether the White House has the power to turn NAFTA into a two-way pact.

Members of congress from both parties have also said they would not support a new NAFTA without Canada's inclusion.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is expected to return to Washington sometime next week for more high level negotiations with her U.S. counterparts.

A second source tells CBC News there is still a lot of technical work that negotiators need to grind through, adding talks are "slow."

加拿大看明白了。

 

[lindamy]

这期限都死了好几回了，还没死透呢？不是前几天说加拿大在奶制品关税上让步了吗？
现在算是比较更了解商人了，叫的最凶是诚信，其实最缺的，最不在乎就是诚信，需要的时候才拿出来打人用的。

 

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[New Person]

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这回老川不出面了，换个人出来发狠话了？既然是谈判，让步就是双方的，要不然谈个啥。