US and Mexican negotiators will continue meeting through the weekend to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement and Canada is set to rejoin the talks as soon as they are called, Mexico’s Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said Friday. But Guajardo told reporters that Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland was ready at any point to proceed with the NAFTA negotiations. The Mexican official declined to go into detail on the topics remaining with the United States but said the agreement could happen at any time. Jesus Seade, an economic advisor to Mexico’s incoming president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has been participating in portions of the NAFTA talks and said the sunset clause “is going out,” according to press reports from Mexico City. Guajardo declined to comment on Seade’s remarks but said the teams were working together on behalf of Mexico.

Source: Egypt Independent August 24, 2018 21:33 UTC