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“Phase one” of the U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is “totally done” despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday.

Robert E. Lighthizer, the U.S. trade representative to the NAFTA renegotiations in Washington, praised what he called a “historic” day not just for the U.S., but for all of North America.

U.S. Trade Rep. Robert Lighthizer became impatient with reporters as he arrived or the final day of NAFTA negotiations in Montreal on Monday, at one point demanding security and media to “walk faster” before barging through the crowd of cameras.

At a press conference on Monday with Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, Trudeau thanked a long list of people from Canada’s premiers, Robert Lighthizer to Mexican president Enrique Nieto over the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).​​

On Sunday, U.S. Ambassador Robert Lighthizer was on Face the Nation to discuss trade with China. According to him, the recent arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou shouldn’t have any impact on the ongoing negotiations. Lighthizer says the tariffs are designed to help coerce China into amending its intellectual property laws and protect American technology...

U.S.-China trade negotiations need to reach a successful end by March 1 or new tariffs will be imposed, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday, clarifying there is a “hard deadline.”

“Phase one” of the U.S.-China trade deal will nearly double U.S. exports to China over the next two years and is “totally done” despite the need for translation and revisions to its text, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Sunday.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer stressed that the United States has a stake in Mexico’s success as representatives from the United States, Mexico and Canada gathered in Mexico City on Tuesday to sign modifications to the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday that one of the accomplishments of the new NAFTA and of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is that this trade agreement has “very strong bipartisan support in the United States.”

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday that Canadian premiers have played a “pivotal” role in the negotiations of the new NAFTA, as have U.S. governors. Freeland met earlier with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer in Washington, D.C., along with Premiers Doug Ford, Scott Moe, Jason Kenney, Blaine Higgs and François Legault.

As the latest round of NAFTA talks wrapped up Monday, U.S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer said elections in Mexico, Ontario, Quebec, and U.S. could complicate negotiations.

U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer panned Canada’s proposal on autos following the sixth round of NAFTA talks, calling it a “poison pill” that would do the reverse of what was intended.

U.S. trade rep Robert Lighthizer said progress had been made over the past week to warrant moving forward with a fresh round of NAFTA talks, but he also made it clear that more work needs to be done.

Following a one-hour meeting with with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer Thursday in Washington, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said work on renegotiating NAFTA will continue over the summer.

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday that Canada respects Mexico and the U.S. domestic ratification process, and said she’s also seen a mutual respect between the Democrats and trade representative Robert Lighthizer on the work being done on CUSMA.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland spoke to the media in Washington Thursday ahead of a meeting to discuss a NAFTA road-map with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

U.S. trade rep Robert Lighthizer threw shade at NAFTA on Monday, following the sixth round of negotiations in Montreal, as he raised concerns over the multi-billion dollar trade deficit between the U.S. and Canada.

U.S. trade rep Robert Lighthizer threw shade at NAFTA on Monday, following the sixth round of negotiations in Montreal, as he raised concerns over the multi-billion dollar trade deficit between the U.S. and Canada.

Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland remained optimistic about negotiating the trade deal with Ambassador Robert Lighthizer’s team before heading into another round of meetings in Washington on Wednesday.

The European Trade Commission says she and U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer will lead a group to determine how tariffs might be removed on industrial goods as the trade war between the U.S. and EU continues.