Many sticking points and little time in NAFTA negotiations
Many sticking points and little time in NAFTA negotiations
May 17. Next Thursday. That’s the deadline House Speaker Paul Ryan has set for negotiators to notify Congress that they’ve reached an agreement on a revised version of the North American Free Trade Agreement if they want to get it through Congress by the end of the year. A May deadline for a December vote may seem aggressive, but the timeline goes something like this: The president has to notify Congress 90 days before he signs a trade agreement, and the full text of the agreement has to be made public a month later. There’s other time built in for review and analysis. So, with little less than a week left, how do we get from here to there?
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