{"id":93063,"date":"2017-09-27T18:02:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/nafta-talks-wind-down-in-ottawa-with-little-movement-on-big-files.html"},"modified":"2017-09-27T18:02:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T18:02:27","slug":"nafta-talks-wind-down-in-ottawa-with-little-movement-on-big-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/nafta-talks-wind-down-in-ottawa-with-little-movement-on-big-files.html","title":{"rendered":"NAFTA talks wind down in Ottawa with little movement on big files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The bell is about to ring marking the end of\u00a0round three of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations, but so far there&#8217;s little to suggest that either the U.S., Mexico or Canada have landed a knockout punch on any of the deal&#8217;s more contentious issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><span>Trudeau to visit Mexico, U.S. amid contentious NAFTA talks<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Freeland\u00a0to stress cultural protections at\u00a0NAFTA\u00a0dinner<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her counterparts, U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Economy Minister ldefonso Guajardo, will hold meetings today before this series of negotiations, and the first one on Canadian soil so far,\u00a0comes to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the year-end deadline to finish the\u00a0massive continental\u00a0deal, Canada&#8217;s chief negotiator\u00a0has said he doesn&#8217;t expect progress on the deal&#8217;s more controversial areas, including Canada&#8217;s maligned dairy and poultry supply-management systems, reports that the United States wants more American content in North American-made vehicles and the\u00a0dispute settlement process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Canada has pitched modernized chapter on <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">gender<\/a>, the environment and Indigenous rights, multiple sources have told CBC News that the\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">U.S. has been slow to present specific details\u00a0of changes it would like to see in\u00a0NAFTA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Liberal government says it has also been calling for progressive and enforceable labour standards in the rewritten\u00a0NAFTA, including an end to corporate unions dominated or otherwise influenced by employers, which keep wages low by essentially dictating the terms in a collective agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>David\u00a0MacNaughton, Canada&#8217;s ambassador to the U.S., said discussions are unfolding &#8220;pretty much as we expected,&#8221; but at times talks have been &#8220;a little more than heated.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Trade war brewing over Bombardier duties<\/h2>\n<p>Complicating matters is the\u00a0U.S. Department of Commerce&#8217;s\u00a0ruling Tuesday against Montreal-based aerospace company Bombardier. The hefty 220 per cent\u00a0countervailing duty on the sale of Bombardier&#8217;s CS100 commercial jets comes at a time when the Canadian government is considering buying fighter jets from its American rival Boeing, which launched the trade complaint.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>Boeing Super Hornet jet purchase likely to become 1st casualty in possible trade war<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Quebec Premier Phillippe Couillard said he is urging Ottawa to take a very &#8220;hard line&#8221; with Boeing over the Super Hornet deal \u2014 and any\u00a0others.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Not a bolt, not a part, not a plane from Boeing [should be] entering Canada until this conflict is resolved in a\u00a0satisfactory way,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to Tueday&#8217;s\u00a0decision, the Liberal government had threatened to cancel its\u00a0planned sole-source purchase of Boeing Super Hornet\u00a0jet fighters<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we are disappointed by the decision and I will continue to fight hard for good Canadian jobs,&#8221; Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u00a0said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u200bFreeland, Lighthizer and Guajardo will present a joint statement at 2:30 p.m. ET marking the end of the third of seven negotiating rounds.<\/p>\n<p>With the deadline approaching and talks heating up, Trudeau is heading to Mexico and the United States next month.<\/p>\n<p>A government source said that although trade is always top of mind for Trudeau, it will not be the sole focus of his trip.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"javascript:void(0)\"><strong>What Canada hopes to get out of\u00a0NAFTA\u00a0talks<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/nafta-third-round-negociations-end-1.4308983?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bell is about to ring marking the end of\u00a0round three of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations, but so far there&#8217;s little to suggest that either the U.S., Mexico or Canada have landed a knockout punch on any of the deal&#8217;s more contentious issues. 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