Trudeau Has NAFTA Wiggle Room but Will Resist on One Big Issue

Trudeau Has NAFTA Wiggle Room but Will Resist on One Big Issue
Stelco's steel plant in Hamilton, Canada, on June 4, 2018. Cole Burston/Getty Images
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The rush is on for Canada to get a NAFTA deal, though a key stumbling block remains.

As analysts began parsing summaries of a partial U.S.-Mexico deal announced Aug. 27, most details didn’t jump out as deal-breakers for the other partner in the 24-year-old continental trade pact. The problems instead lie in a series of NAFTA fights always seen as squarely between Canada and the U.S., chief among them the pact’s dispute resolution systems.