President Trump is approaching the end of another year without closing on either of the two big trade priorities he campaigned on in 2016 — a comprehensive deal with China and a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement
With the 2020 campaign around the corner, the President himself is casting doubt on whether he needs to make a deal with China and left it an open question whether the US will move ahead with additional tariffs in less than two weeks. "Right now, we're moving along, we're not discussing that," he told reporters on Thursday at the White House. Two days earlier, on Tuesday, Trump told reporters in London,"I have no deadline.
But the pinch point with China comes just as the President's top trade official, Robert Lighthizer, is also working to get Congress to ratify the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement before lawmakers adjourn for its holiday recess -- a negotiation that's playing out against the backdrop of the Democratic impeachment inquiry and a potential budget standoff later this month.
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