The U.S., Canada and Mexico signed a new trade deal championed by President Donald Trump to replace the quarter-century-old NAFTA pact, capping a year of intense negotiations and offering a glimmer of certainty amid rising global tensions over trade.
Ahead of Saturday’s dinner between the leaders of China and the U.S., U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke of the rapport he believes President Trump and Xi Jinping share. Asked about the odds of a trade deal being reached at their meeting Lighthizer said: “I would be very surprised if the dinner was not a success, I think it will be successful, the two men like each other.”
Russia wasn’t justified in its use of recent military force against Ukranian ships, the foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and U.S. said Friday in joint statement.
