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U.S. urges swifter action in next NAFTA round

Negotiators with the U.S., Canada and Mexico all say there has been progress in the sixth round of NAFTA renegotiations that just wrapped up in Canada.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, says progress has been “very slow” and he urges an accelerated pace in the next round of talks next month, “We will engage both Mexico and Canada, urgently, and we will do where these negotiations take us.”

Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Foreign Minister, pointed to some movement in the area of ag trade, “We made good progress here in the talks on sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures, customs and trade facilitation, and, technical barriers to trade.”

The seventh round of NAFTA talks starts in late February in Mexico.