{"id":6979,"date":"2018-04-24T11:13:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=e778c312cda0609ffff5efbbc06292ad"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:13:04","slug":"i-think-we-can-close-this-as-nafta-ministers-meet-mexico-eyes-new-deal-by-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/24\/i-think-we-can-close-this-as-nafta-ministers-meet-mexico-eyes-new-deal-by-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I think we can close this\u2019: As NAFTA ministers meet, Mexico eyes new deal by next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY &#8212; Ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico meeting in Washington could agree on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement in the next 10 days, a Mexican business leader said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiators have said a new NAFTA could be possible by early May, and officials hailed progress on the key issue of new automotive sector rules last week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the coming 10 days we can really have a new agreement in principle,&#8221; said Moises Kalach, head of the international negotiating arm of the CCE business lobby, which represents the Mexican private sector at the NAFTA talks.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"related_links\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/diane-francis\/nafta-is-doomed-and-its-all-canadas-fault\">NAFTA is doomed and it\u2019s all \u2018notoriously unpleasant\u2019 Canada\u2019s fault<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/news\/economy\/u-s-waters-down-another-key-nafta-demand-reduces-autos-ask-by-10-per-cent\">U.S. waters down another key NAFTA demand, reduces auto content ask by 10%<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/opinion\/terence-corcoran-the-race-to-complete-nafta-talks-risks-rushing-a-bad-deal\">Terence Corcoran: The race to complete NAFTA talks risks rushing a bad deal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even so, differences remain on U.S. demands to change dispute resolution mechanisms and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as there is political will from the American government to go for a final deal, I think we can close this,&#8221; Kalach told local radio.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer were to meet on Tuesday in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve had all our (negotiating) teams in Washington for two weeks and we will continue working all this week, the weekend and into next week,&#8221; said Kalach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2018<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Negotiators have said a new NAFTA could be possible by early May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6982,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions\/6982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}