Congress Is Anxious as U.S.-Canada-Mexico Trade Talks Intensify

As another round of negotiations to review a North American free-trade deal wraps up in Washington this week, lawmakers are growing more vocal in defense of the deal, and anxious about its future.

President Trump has said he’s not sure whether he will renew the six-year-old United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. While many view the president’s threats as a negotiating tactic, they are still causing concern among members of Congress whose districts depend on the agreement.

The United States and Mexico are negotiating in earnest, trading proposals in Washington this week about cars, agriculture and other topics. But Canada did not join the negotiations, raising questions about how any changes would be translated to a three-party agreement. The Trump administration has at times threatened to jettison Canada entirely.

Representative Linda T. Sánchez of California, the top Democrat on a House trade panel, said in an interview that she was a “big proponent” of maintaining the trilateral structure of U.S.M.C.A.

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