Negotiations for a new North American Free Trade Agreement are again at a critical point as the clock ticks down on Sunday night's U.S. deadline to file the text of a bilateral deal with Mexico. Watch: Last minute NAFTA talksCanada, the U.S. and Mexico are all pushing for a trilateral NAFTA pact, a change of tone after the latter two countries had planned to release details on a renegotiated deal without Canada. Last month, Trump announced his negotiators had reached a bilateral deal with Mexico. He outlined the deadline — Sept. 30 at midnight — for the text of that deal to be submitted to Congress. "The ideal is a trilateral deal, but we're prepared for the possible need of a bilateral," he told Bloomberg News.
Source: CBC News September 30, 2018 16:30 UTC