Source: Philip Brasher, AGRI-PULSE, 8/16/17

The top U.S. trade negotiator opened the historic renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement by bluntly warning that the pact has “fundamentally failed many, many Americans” despite its benefits to farmers and border communities and needs “major improvement.” President Trump “is not interested in a mere tweaking of a few provisions and a couple of updated chapters,” said U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, raising the stakes for the negotiations. The first round of talks run through Sunday at a Washington hotel.

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