NAmerican businesses urge new NAFTA deal

MONTREAL: Canadian, Mexican and US chambers of commerce urged NAFTA leaders Monday to find common ground to renegotiate

Just ahead of the sixth round of negotiations to update the North American Free Trade Agreement, metropolitan chambers of commerce stressed that free trade keeps

We “urge our respective governments to come to an agreement to an updated NAFTA, and to maintain it for the future economic suc- cess of all three nations,” the leaders of 25 metropolitan chambers

The chambers, which represent economic zones with a trillion, said they “share a common desire to maintain free trade between the United States,

Noting that NAFTA has helped quadruple trade between the tree countries since taking effect in annually, they also argued that multinational manufacturing value chains could be expensive

US President Donald Trump wants to replace NAFTA with an agreement he says would be more

The six days of talks in Montreal come amid high trade tensions between Ottawa and Washington and as Trump insists Mexico will pay for the construction of a controversial wall along America’s

Despite significant progress on so-called “bread and butter” issues, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is bracing for “the worst,” including a possible US withdrawal from NAFTA that would effectively mean the end of

While often railing against NAFTA, Trump has at times also seemed to soften his view, telling The Wall Street Journal he would be “a little bit flexible” on his threat to withdraw because of the upcoming Mexican presidential