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NAFTA Deal By Year End ‘Impossible To Predict’: Chief Negotiator Steve Verheul

 

OTTAWA — Canada’s chief negotiator says solid progress is being made in talks to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, but it’s too soon to tell if a deal can be reached by the year-end deadline set by the United States.

“The pace is very fast and the (negotiating) rounds are very closely squeezed together, which is a bit unusual, so there’s not as much time to do work in between rounds as we would ordinarily expect,” Steve Verheul said Sunday as negotiators wrapped up the second day of talks in the third round of negotiations.

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