Democrats, Trump trade negotiator near deal for trade pact

Fox Business ^ | December 08 2019 | The Wall Street Journal

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House Democrats and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer are nearing a deal for Congress to pass a modified U.S. trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, though hurdles remain, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

House Democrats and Mr. Lighthizer have been meeting for months to hammer out a deal to amend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, and have narrowed differences over key sticking points in recent days, the people said. The biggest divide is over revising the agreement on the enforcement of labor rules, a priority for Democrats.

Mexico’s chief trade negotiator, the undersecretary for North America, Jesús Seade, who was in Washington last week, delivered a status update to Mexican senators in Mexico City on Sunday. Afterward Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, who attended the meeting, said while the government remains opposed to allowing U.S. inspectors to enforce labor rules in Mexico, he welcomed the use of arbitration panels to resolve disputes over labor standards.

[Paladin2]

The ‘Rats seem to be a separate nation these daze.

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The union slavery party strikes again. Labor costs will increase astronomically. Not sure I am on board with forcing a sovereign nation to adopt our labor rules.
The rise of Hitlers working party charade is ever present.

[Rastus]

The biggest divide is over revising the agreement on the enforcement of labor rules, a priority for Democrats.

The biggest divide is that Democrats would rather see a trade agreement burn rather than handing Donald Trump a victory.

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House Democrats and Mr. Lighthizer have been meeting for months to hammer out a deal to amend the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, and have narrowed differences over key sticking points in recent days, the people said. The biggest divide is over revising the agreement on the enforcement of labor rules, a priority for Democrats.

Such bullshit.

The USMCA would pass with 400+ votes in the house, without a single change, if only fancy nancy, with the moving teeth, would bring it to the floor of the house for a vote.

No changes nor negotiations for changes are required, and everyone knows it.

She will not bring it because she is too busy "preying" for President Trump and doesn't want to give him a trade win, regardless that it would create 180,000 new jobs.