NAFTA TALKS ‘DOING VERY NICELY’
U.S. President Donald Trump said talks on a revised NAFTA are “doing very nicely” as ministers from the United States, Mexico and Canada meet in Washington to try to push for an agreement by early May. “NAFTA as you know is moving along,” Trump said in a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday in Washington. “I could make a deal very quickly but I’m not sure that’s in the best interest of the United States. We’ll see what happens, but we’re doing very well.” Under optimistic conditions, negotiators have a 75-per-cent chance of reaching a deal soon, Moises Kalach, the trade head for the Mexican business chamber known as CCE, said in an interview with Grupo Formula radio. A deal on an updated NAFTA could be reached in the next 10 days, he said. If not, talks could resume at year’s end or early 2019, given the elections in Mexico and U.S. Kalach said.