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The U.S. Trade Representative is set to begin 45 days of public consultations ahead of the mandated review of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement next year.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and former U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer, a previous supporter of tariffs, will speak at a conservative conference in Ottawa this week.

Theories abound, from the plausible to the personal to the neo-colonial -- to even the perverse.

Jamieson Greer, U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. trade representative, put countries on notice they must lower import barriers to maintain access to the U.S. market.

The renegotiated NAFTA deal isn't ratified yet, and Bill Kelly doubts it ever will be.

The United States raised tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on Friday after American officials accused Beijing of backtracking on commitments made in earlier rounds of negotiations.

The New NAFTA deal will not be ratified by the time Justin Trudeau visits Donald Trump in Washington on June 20.

It's unclear if Canadian officials suspected that Rex Tillerson was going to lose his job, but Ottawa will now need to adjust to a new face in the U.S. administration's top foreign affairs position.

Justin Trudeau says he believes agreement on a renewed North American free trade deal between Canada, Mexico and the United States is "eminently possible."

The White House is keen to have Donald Trump, Justin Trudeau and Enrique Pena Nieto announce a deal in principle at the Summit of the Americas in Lima next week.

Insiders are suggesting that a NAFTA deal could be done within days with new rules on North American components for autos as a key factor.

Talks to update the NAFTA trade deal enter a make-or-break week on Monday, as ministers from Canada, the United States and Mexico seek to resolve an impasse in key areas before elections in Mexico and the United States complicate the process.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has been heavily involved in NAFTA talks with the U.S. and Mexico.

Talk of an impending NAFTA deal is premature, Canadian union leader Jerry Dias said in Washington while officials were negotiating there Wednesday.

The Chinese Commerce Ministry gave no details but said the two sides want to create “favorable conditions.”

Employment Minister Patty Hajdu will be in the meeting to try to address labour enforcement standard concerns.

Canada is about to put forward two sets of proposals at the NAFTA negotiations seen as a litmus test of whether these talks become a real give-and-take negotiation, or a deadlocked process

 U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that terminating the North American Free Trade Agreement would result in the "best deal" to revamp the 24-year-old trade pact with Canada and Mexico in favor of U.S. interests.

Mexico and Canada aim to finish reworking less contentious chapters of the NAFTA trade deal with the United States in new talks that began Sunday.

As the seventh round of NAFTA talks ended, Global Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland tried to assuage concerns about how a trade war on steel and aluminum would affect the deal.