NAFTA

The Trump administration on Wednesday launched an investigation into whether tariffs are needed on the imports of automobiles into the United States, moving swiftly as talks over the North American Free Trade Agreement have stalled. President Donald Trump predicted earlier that U.S. automakers and auto workers would be "very happy" with the outcome of the NAFTA talks.

The United States declared the NAFTA countries were nowhere close to a deal in a statement on Thursday, May 17, 2018, designed to douse expectations that an agreement might be just a few minor adjustments away.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used New York University graduation speech Wednesday to criticize growth in identity politics.

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussed the possibility on Monday, May 14, 2018, of immediately wrapping up a NAFTA deal despite signs of skepticism about whether that goal is feasible.

Nearly 50 labour, environmental and anti-poverty groups have written to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, urging her to champion a new NAFTA trade agreement that favours workers and community rights, as opposed to corporate interests and profits.

Canada and the U.S. have had a testy exchange over the idea of including a termination clause in NAFTA, with this idea of a so-called sunset clause emerging as a late-stage sticking point in the negotiations.

Justin Trudeau is heading home from a lengthy, three-country foreign tour in which the prime minister appeared to recapture his international mojo and reassert several key alliances, but didn't sign off on any big deals or declarations.

Two of the three political leaders with the most at stake at the NAFTA table huddled on Friday, April 13, 2018, behind closed doors, their most senior trade lieutenants alongside, in hopes of unlocking a mutually beneficial solution to the cross-border conundrum posed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Talk of an impending NAFTA deal is premature, Canadian union leader Jerry Dias said in Washington while officials were negotiating there on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

Canada is the most sued country in NAFTA. It's a troubling fact that has resurfaced since Canada, the United States and Mexico began renegotiating the trade deal last year.

There's an 80 per cent chance of a new NAFTA agreement in principle within a month, the Mexican minister leading the file said on Monday, April 9, 2018.

Trade insiders say a token win on NAFTA may soon be possible — but the substantive work is nowhere near complete.

The United States needs to show more flexibility toward resolving "core" issues if it expects to get an agreement on the controversial trade deal sometime this spring, before looming political uncertainties set in, Canada's chief NAFTA negotiator said on Wednesday, March 28, 2018.

A long-running academic debate about trade statistics has taken on new importance after U.S. President Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging about making up trade statistics during NAFTA negotiations with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

U.S. President Donald Trump's new top economic adviser's views on trade will likely thrill Justin Trudeau — so long as he's willing to overlook some of his other views: specifically, those involving the prime minister himself.