Article source
Financial Times
Article date
Sun, Jul 16, 2017
As Mexico braces for the US to put its Nafta negotiating objectives in writing, potentially as soon as today, Washington’s letter last week to South Korea makes ominous reading.
“President Trump continues to keep his promises to lower our trade deficit,” said US trade representative Robert Lighthizer. If the administration pursues that goal above all others in negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement that could start in mid-August, Mexico fears the talks will go nowhere fast.