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U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Continue In Bid To Update NAFTA

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Updated at 3:06 p.m. ET With a deadline looming, Canada and the United States headed into talks for a fourth day, trying to hammer out a deal that would rewrite the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement. Canada rejoined NAFTA talks on Tuesday, a day after the U.S. and Mexico reached a deal , tweaking the free trade agreement. President Trump said he had a new name for that pact: the United States-Mexico Trade Agreement. The White House dismissed a report by the Toronto Star that President Trump said he is not making any compromises in the talks with Canada and that a deal would be "totally on our terms." "The Canadian and American negotiators continue to work on reaching a win-win deal that benefits both countries," Lindsay Walters, White House Deputy Press Secretary, told NPR. But later Trump seemed to confirm the report, tweeting : "Wow, I made OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS to Bloomberg concerning Canada, and this powerful understanding was BLATANTLY VIOLATED. Oh well, just more

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