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NAFTA's Digital Trade chapter could be finalized next month all before the public has seen a single word of it. The fifth round of re-negotiations for NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) finished last week in Mexico and the Digital Trade section might be forced through, unseen by the public, during the next round on December 11th in Washington, DC.
The fifth round of negotiations over a modernized North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) wound up last week in Mexico. Following conclusion of the round, Mexican Trade Minister Ildefonso Guajardo told reporters that he hoped that the next round, to be held in Washington, DC in the week of 11 December, could see sufficient progress made that the agreement's Digital Trade chapter could be closed... all before the public has seen a single word of it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 02 2017, @12:12AM
Perot was right. NAFTA has been killing jobs for ages.
It's weird that NAFTA gets regularly renegotiated. Whatever happens may get undone later.
The best we can hope for is that NAFTA gets cut back a bit. This'll be a mixed bag. Trump being Trump, it'll probably be much less bad for the economy. Maybe some "digital trade" tariff will go toward a wall. In the end though, it's still NAFTA.