USMCA talks down to ‘last issues,’ Mexican negotiator says

Published December 6, 2019 8:47pm ET



Mexico’s deputy foreign minister for North America, Jesus Seade, told reporters Friday that negotiators were dealing with the “last issues” that were holding up passage of President Trump’s United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade and expressed optimism that a deal would soon be reached.

“Everything can be resolved,” Seade, his country’s top trade negotiator, told reporters Friday following a meeting with officials at the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office in Washington, according to Reuters.

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