OTTAWA — A senior Canadian foreign ministry official says it is hard to see a way forward in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations because of a series of “problematic” proposals by the Trump administration. But Moen suggested the so-called Buy American proposal from U.S. negotiators might be the most difficult to swallow. “The U.S. put forward a proposal that they’re calling ‘dollar-for-dollar’ that we fundamentally disagree with,” Moen said. It was billed as an update on the recently completed fourth round of NAFTA talks, which revealed a wide gap between the U.S. and its Canadian and Mexican counterparts. We’re not seeking to be in any way slowing things down,” said Moen, who recently served as a senior trade official in the Canadian embassy in Washington.

Source: National Post November 02, 2017 20:04 UTC