US-Canada trade talks miss deadline

Ashifa Kassam in Toronto and Edward Helmore in New York
Sat 1 Sep 2018 11.10 EDT

Days of high-stakes talks between Canada and the US have faltered, failing to yield a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) before a Friday deadline set out by Washington.

On Saturday morning, Donald Trump tweeted: “There is no political necessity to keep Canada in the new NAFTA deal. If we don’t make a fair deal for the U.S. after decades of abuse, Canada will be out. Congress should not interfere w/ these negotiations or I will simply terminate NAFTA entirely & we will be far better off” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/31/nafta-deadline-canada-us-talks-trump-wto