"NAFTA is a trilateral agreement and it would make a lot of sense to have trilateral discussions," he said.
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"Their position is that this a trilateral negotiation, and we will keep working in a trilateral framework," he said.
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The deal underpins more than $1 trillion of trilateral trade.
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The trade deal underpins some $1.2 trillion in trilateral trade.
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The trilateral summit was expected to take place in late July.
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They would set up a mechanism for trilateral monitoring of the ceasefire.
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Baig cited the example of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trilateral trade deal.
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On Tuesday, Bolton will participate in the US-Russia-Israel trilateral meetings.
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Toomey said there are also positive changes in the new trilateral pact.
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Israeli officials have talked for years about a trilateral pipeline to Europe.
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A trilateral task force on workforce development would help fill that gap.
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A successful trilateral deal can be the template for future trade agreements.
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Trudeau has previously said he would like the talks to remain trilateral.
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The pact is important for trilateral security cooperation with the United States.
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Trilateral meeting Before the state visit, Li took part in a trilateral meeting Wednesday morning with Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in to discuss the outcome of April's historic Korean summit with the North Korean leader.
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The agreement between the US and Mexico on Monday was a significant marker in the yearlong effort to renegotiate the trilateral trade pact, sweeping away key obstacles impacting the US and Mexico that had held up trilateral talks.
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But on Wednesday, Mexican and Canadian officials said they wanted to work toward a trilateral deal, and were not interested in bilateral agreements with the U.S. Mnuchin said Thursday the administration was "indifferent" to bilateral or trilateral agreements.
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But on Wednesday, Mexican and Canadian officials said they wanted to work toward a trilateral deal, and were not interested in bilateral agreements with the U.S. On Thursday, Mnuchin said the administration was "indifferent" to bilateral or trilateral agreements.
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Since entering into office, negotiations have been underway to revise the trilateral deal.
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A joint statement on May 31st outlined the scope of the trilateral talks.
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"I am encouraged by this productive, trilateral dialogue," Brooks said in a statement.
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We just came off of a trilateral energy meeting, U.S., Canada and Mexico.
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"The first trilateral meeting has recently taken place," Blok told reporters in Sydney.
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Otherwise, the damage could extend to business transactions well beyond their trilateral framework.
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"Their preference is trilateral," Democratic Senator Debbie Stabenow told reporters after the meeting.
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Canada says it supports those talks as a precursor to a trilateral deal.
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This is a considered trilateral conversation between a patient, their loved ones and clinicians.
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Trump tweeted his approval Monday morning for what he called a "wonderful" trilateral agreement.
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Mexico has also scrambled to try and ensure that the Nafta pact remains trilateral.
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The three leaders say they will work on bilateral, trilateral and multilateral free-trade agreements.
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A controversial clause in the trilateral pact put the focus back on the Sino-U.
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It was the first trilateral meeting among the ministers since Trump took office in January.
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Building that trilateral energy relationship is going to be one of important areas this year.
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" He added: "I told him that we would insist that the treaty would be trilateral.
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It might not qualify for a fast-track legislative procedure that a trilateral deal would.
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S. dialogue to end North Korea's nuclear program, during their trilateral summit in Chengdu, China.
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Merkel instead is pushing for bilateral and trilateral deals to cope with short-term migration pressures.
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It may even pave the way for a trilateral agreement in principle over the coming weeks.
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Lavrov was speaking after a trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia, India and China.
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U.S. business groups and some senior Democrats say NAFTA must be preserved as a trilateral grouping.
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Modi will also talk up a trilateral highway project connecting India's northeast with Myanmar and Thailand.
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In the 22019s there was a trilateral American-Israeli-Palestinian committee that monitored incitement to violence.
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It was not clear if such a move would bring an end to the trilateral NAFTA.
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Therefore, the reasons for the booming trilateral business have to be sought in improving political ties.
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Officials from Canada and Mexico have repeatedly made it clear that they want a trilateral deal.
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The senators also urged a stronger trilateral relationship between the United States, South Korea and Japan.
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She said she believes a trilateral trade pact that benefits all three countries can be achieved.
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WE HAVE JOINTLY ISSUED THREE TRILATERAL PROCLAMATIONS AGAINST CHINA SINCE THE OLD TARIFFS WENT INTO EFFECT.
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Even the legality of pushing a bilateral deal through Congress, having promised a trilateral one, is fuzzy.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine is ready to join trilateral talks to discuss gas issues with Russia on Dec.
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TEHRAN, Iran – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Iran for trilateral talks with Tehran and Azerbaijan.
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Meanwhile, a stronger trilateral relationship with Japan and America would help in dealing with dangerous North Korea.
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News. Lieberman had been in Cyprus for a trilateral meeting with the Greek and Cypriot defense ministers.
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The Mexican government has also taken that position, even as it says it wants a trilateral deal.
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South Korea would not enter any trilateral military alliance with the United States and Japan, Kang added.
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Most critically, the renegotiation preserved the trilateral trade pact, after Trump threatened to tear up NAFTA altogether.
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South Korea also promised not to join a trilateral military alliance with the United States and Japan.
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NAFTA underpins more than $1 trillion worth of trilateral trade between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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But negotiators from all three countries have said they will continue to work toward a trilateral deal.
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Yi last visited the South Korean capital for a trilateral meeting, also attended by Japan, in 2015.
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If Canada is not on board by then, the formerly trilateral deal will become a bilateral agreement.
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But top negotiators for Canada and Mexico said Wednesday they were committed to a trilateral NAFTA agreement.
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Some lawmakers said only a trilateral pact would be eligible for fast-track, 51-vote Senate approval.
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Canada and Mexico had hoped to reach an agreement before signing a new trilateral trade agreement next month.
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NAFTA is the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement joined by Mexico, Canada and the U.S. on Jan.
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A trilateral statement boasted of progress on the rules covering competition policy, customs, digital trade and regulatory practices.
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One China: The 28500 U.S.-China Shanghai Communique has been called the "original sin" of the trilateral relationship.
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For all three countries, maintaining a trilateral deal is key to supply chains, production logistics and agricultural sales.
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We'll continue to pursue bilateral and trilateral defense and security cooperation where possible with Japan and the ROK.
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Since Nafta came into effect in 1994, trilateral trade has quadrupled and investment across the continent has surged.
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China has also been in long-running talks with Japan and South Korea on a trilateral trade partnership.
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Canada on Tuesday rejoined talks with the United States and Mexico over the future of the trilateral pact.
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If trilateral strategic nuclear arms control is of interest, the three countries will have to start from scratch.
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Erdogan failed to secure a pledge for a ceasefire from Russia and Iran at a trilateral summit in Tehran.
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"That threatens passage of the trilateral deal this Congress, as next year is a presidential election year," Grassley said.
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The survey was completed before a new trilateral trade deal between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico was announced Monday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed after the trilateral meeting to continue to act against Iranian entrenchment in Syria.
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The trilateral meeting was held on the sidelines of the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting in Yokohama, eastern Japan.
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And the ratification in Congress of the trilateral U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, a replacement for NAFTA, also faces hurdles.
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Third, many trilateral issues upon which Mexico and the U.S. have agreed will need to be approved by Canada.
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Research and other intellectual property can be placed for public consumption to convey the importance of this trilateral relationship.
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The US government should also encourage more trilateral exercises and explore incorporating Australia and other democracies into future exercises.
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Trump has expressed a desire to negotiate a trilateral arms control deal signed by the US, Russia and China.
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Trilateral discussions begun in mid-2016 on the maritime territorial issue were concluded by the end of the year.
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Until then, Canadian and Mexican leaders had insisted that no deal with Trump was possible unless it was trilateral.
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In August, Ms. Freeland outlined Canada's vision for what it called "progressive elements" to any new trilateral trade deal.
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The leaders of Greece, Cyprus and Israel held their latest trilateral meeting just last week, focusing on energy issues.
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South Korea says the decision was unrelated to the alliance with the United States and trilateral cooperation with Japan.
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The agreement saves the 22021-year-old trilateral pact, which had been close to collapse after months of bickering.
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The top stack is fairly Scrabbly, and I liked the AMAZEBALLS/TAX EVASION/TRILATERAL combo, though, so that's forgivable.
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They will then travel to the southwestern city of Chengdu for a trilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
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"If the president is seeking a trilateral deal as a follow-on to New Start, that's a different thing."
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NAFTA is, of course, a trilateral agreement between Mexico, Canada, and the US that aims to reduce trade barriers.
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The test comes as South Korea, Japan and the US wrap up trilateral naval military drills off the Korean Peninsula.
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NAFTA is a trilateral pact between the US, Mexico, and Canada, and Congress would like to keep it that way.
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The trilateral trade agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico was salvaged in an 11th-hour deal on Sunday.
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In short, the North is seeking to exploit the growing strains in the trilateral U.S.-South Korea-Japan alliance relations.
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But regarding the question: can we get bilateral and trilateral agreements in the coming days, this meeting is very important.
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The president warned Congress not to meddle with the trade negotiations or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether.
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However, splitting the current trilateral deal into two separate bilateral agreements would likely require nullifying the 25-year-old agreement.
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It's a word that can "open" or begin the word "lateral," which in this case is TRI (as in TRIlateral).
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He said he "appreciated the strong and continued" trilateral cooperation involving Japan amid historical and trade tension between Seoul and Tokyo.
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Some Republicans chafed at that; a trilateral NAFTA would get a smoother ride in Congress than a bilateral deal with Mexico.
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In July Australia, Japan and India held high-level trilateral talks in New Delhi, raising the possibility of joint naval exercises.
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"Trilateral cooperation is a very important part of East Asian cooperation," Wang told his counterparts at the beginning of the meeting.
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The US, Canada, and Mexico officially signed a new trilateral trade deal on Friday at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires.
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He chaired both leading multinationals (BP, Goldman Sachs International), and worthy intellectual enterprises (the Trilateral Commission, the London School of Economics).
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It is that lack of parity which makes the idea of a trilateral arms control treaty a non-starter for China.
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While our bilateral relationships in the region are strong, we must further develop the American, Japanese and South Korean trilateral relationship.
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Trump signed an executive order setting up talks on the trilateral trade deal, which has hit roadblocks with Mexico and Canada.
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Canadian officials also are aware that U.S. business and labor groups are pushing Trump to keep NAFTA as a trilateral deal.
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To become law, a final deal is needed among the three EU institutions, under trilateral talks due to begin in July.
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Finance leaders of Japan, China and South Korea last week agreed at a trilateral meeting to resist all forms of protectionism.
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" Pant said the Trump administration's actions seem "to be reviving the Russia-India-China trilateral framework," which had seemed "relatively useless.
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That authority was for a trilateral deal involving all three NAFTA partners, not a bilateral pact between just two of them.
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This action brought us one step closer to implementing a strong trilateral agreement that will significantly improve commerce between our countries.
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It would be great if we could have a trilateral agreement on lifting those and our retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods.
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" The trilateral deal will no longer be called Nafta, they said, but will be named the "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Even after that, Japan and South Korea will still have access to each other's intelligence through a trilateral agreement with America.
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The trilateral trade agreement between Canada , the U.S. and Mexico is coming under the knife as renegotiation begins between the countries.
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The plan was for Canada and the US to negotiate for another month, then submit the text for a trilateral deal.
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Andrea Mitchell: I know, I'm saying that, I'm putting that out there because- Chuck Todd: Of course she's at the trilateral commission, Andrea... Andrea Mitchell: It was an academic- So, George Soros was running it, but go ahead- Andrea Mitchell: Right and this has been- Chuck Todd: I thought the Queen of England ran the Trilateral Commission.
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" After Trump previously suggested that China wanted to participate in a trilateral deal with the US and Russia, a spokesperson for the Chinese government said in May 2019: "We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement.
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The deal reportedly leaves intact much of NAFTA, a trilateral agreement that Trump has long excoriated as among the worst ever made.
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The intense effort seemed to pay off last week, as senators from both American parties argued in favour of a trilateral agreement.
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Whatever happens, the parties should not impose further blows on the trilateral economic partnership the U.S. has built with Canada and Mexico.
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The United States and Canada forged a deal on Sunday North American time to preserve NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico.
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Abe was speaking after a trilateral summit with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held in Tokyo.
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This cross border integration is why major business groups are strongly arguing that any new agreement should remain trilateral and include Canada.
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The Mexicans and Canadians insist that NAFTA should remain a trilateral accord, despite U.S. arguments for breaking it into two bilateral deals.
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The fourth trilateral meeting of trade ministers of the United States, European Union, and Japan in fact took place today in Washington.
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The Chinese media reports also have it that Seoul refused to participate in a trilateral military alliance with the U.S. and Japan.
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This will necessitate trilateral talks between the two countries and the U.S. or possibly four-way talks including China, a statement said.
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"In addition to the trilateral meetings, throughout the renegotiation of NAFTA there have been numerous bilateral meetings," said USTR spokeswoman Emily Davis.
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Mexico has maintained it would like a trilateral deal, with representatives maintaining close contact with Canadian counterparts, namely Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland.
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She is a David Rockefeller fellow of the Trilateral Commission and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations in Manhattan.
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The thing with a trilateral trade pact is that you need all three countries on board for it to go in effect.
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It could also delay the ratification of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trilateral trade deal that Trump wants to replace NAFTA.
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"There will be bilateral and trilateral agreements, how can we help each other, not always wait for all 28 members," she said.
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Any new NAFTA deal would have to be approved by Congress, which strongly favors a trilateral agreement over a bilateral US-Mexico pact.
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Earlier this month, guided missile destroyers from the US, Japan and South Korea participated in trilateral naval exercises focused on improving missile defense.
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Putin will also hold trilateral talks with Rouhani and lham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, during his working visit to Tehran, Peskov said.
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Japan had originally intended to host the trilateral summit this year, but it postponed the plan due to political uncertainty in South Korea.
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In a telephone call with Moon, Putin said Russia was ready to help with trilateral infrastructure and energy projects on the Korean peninsula.
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"Great trilateral meeting & dinner w/ President Shinzō Abe of Japan & President Moon Jae-in of South Korea @ the @usconshamburg this evening," tweeted Trump.
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WASHINGTON, May 11 (Reuters) - Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Friday that there will be a trilateral NAFTA meeting at 1 p.m.
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Strained ties The last trilateral talks took place in Seoul in 2015 between Abe, Li and then-South Korean President Park Geun-hye.
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With the Trilateral Commission's backing, Huntington and two co-authors produced a survey of democracy's health in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
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On NAFTA, Timmons urged Trump not to rip up the agreement, saying a U.S. exit from the trilateral deal would cost manufacturing jobs.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement or, as Trump likes to call it, the "worst trade deal ever made," is a trilateral agreement.
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With Mexico, Canada and the United States all part of the TPP, the trilateral was effectively going to act as a revamped NAFTA.
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The noncontroversial measure is designed to help small-business owners get access to each others' markets and also sets up a trilateral dialogue.
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Essentially, this supposed trilateral arrangement fails to deal with the underlying demographic and sectarian issues that began the war in the first place.
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"The world community has stood up to the U.S. sanctions," Zarif said, after a trilateral meeting between Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan's foreign minister.
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Once this is done, as a next step, Seoul, Washington and Pyongyang should continue with trilateral meetings — at which all sides make concessions.
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He said Ukrainian authorities were in favor of holding trilateral talks but Russia had yet to answer his letter outlining such a proposal.
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Trump even gave the bilateral agreement a name: the "US-Mexico Trade Agreement," which he said would replace the trilateral free trade deal.
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But India has begun holding trilateral naval exercises with the U.S. and Japan that military experts say could eventually include Australia as well.
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" Beijing swiftly denied that account just days later, saying they would "not take part in any trilateral negotiations on a nuclear disarmament agreement.
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Three days later China, estimated to have only about 300 nuclear weapons, dismissed the idea of participating in trilateral nuclear arms reduction talks.
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The ministry also said Mexico will participate in trilateral talks and keep pushing for Canada to remain a part of the revamped NAFTA.
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Though NAFTA is a trilateral deal, a Mexican source said there are issues that are really "bilateral" between Mexico and the United States.
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The Beijing talks would reaffirm Japan's "close bilateral cooperation" with South Korea, as well as trilateral ties with the United States, the ministry said.
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The United States and Canada forged a deal on Sunday to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a trilateral pact with Mexico.
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Here's everything you need to know about USMCA, the trilateral trade agreement formerly known as NAFTA, and what it may mean for the future.
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Last Friday, a senior U.S. official expressed willingness to hold a trilateral meeting with Japan and South Korea in Thailand, according to Japan Today.
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Speaking Monday from the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump praised the "extraordinary agreement" between the trilateral partners, dubbed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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Canada and Mexico, along with US lawmakers from both parties, have called for Trump to end the tariffs before the trilateral deal is ratified.
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Why it matters: The trilateral meeting between the national security advisers of Israel, the U.S. and Russia in late June is an unprecedented event.
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Hours before the midnight deadline, the two countries agreed to a framework for a renewed trilateral agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada.
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The U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA over the weekend, following more than a year of tense trilateral negotiations.
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The 193-year-old NAFTA is a trilateral deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico that underpins $1.2 trillion in North American Trade.
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Canada's top trade negotiator joins her Mexican and U.S. counterparts in Washington on Tuesday in a bid to remain part of the trilateral pact.
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America, Japan and South Korea held their first-ever trilateral missile-defence drills, one week after North Korea tested its intermediate-range ballistic missile.
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Oil market sentiment was lifted by Sunday's last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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Although Mexican negotiators see this as a breakthrough, by eschewing trilateral talks they limited their bargaining power and ultimately left money on the table.
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Top diplomats from China, Japan and South Korea are also set to hold a trilateral meeting for the first time since 2015 on Wednesday.
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Some lawmakers said however, that a bilateral pact could lose the benefits of U.S. "fast-track" negotiating authority, which calls for a trilateral deal.
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On Monday, Erdogan, Putin and Rouhani are expected to hold bilateral talks with each other before holding trilateral talks on the developments in Idlib.
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As ambassador, I attended trilateral meetings where my colleagues rejected serious suggestions from Afghans and Americans to mitigate apprehensions about Indian influence in Afghanistan.
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The United States has pressured its two allies to set aside their feud and maintain the pact, seen as linchpin of trilateral security cooperation.
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He spent more than half the year traveling on behalf of Chase or groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission.
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But Mexico balked at being singled out in the trilateral pact, and was concerned the annex would tie the hands of its telecommunications regulator.
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The United States salvaged a trilateral free trade accord with Canada and Mexico on Sunday, which underpins $22009 trillion in trade between the three countries.
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"Once the bilateral issues get resolved, Canada will be joining the talks to work on both bilateral issues and our trilateral issues," Freeland told reporters.
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If such a deal contained something the other partners did not like, the clause threatens that the trilateral pact could yet become a bilateral one.
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For the Algonquins on the Rapid Lake reserve, the priority is getting the federal and provincial governments to honour a trilateral deal struck in 1991.
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There are four "endgame scenarios" in the trilateral talks between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, wrote Chris Krueger, managing director at Cowen Washington Research Group.
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Mexico on Friday said the U.S. Trump administration and Canada were making efforts to resolve their differences, raising hopes the pact could be kept trilateral.
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The Canadian dollar traded at C$1.2806 per dollar after rallying to a four-month high of C$1.2782 overnight following the trilateral trade pact.
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S. Free Trade Agreement, the precursor to the trilateral deal which added Mexico, noting, "I can't imagine them wanting to do anything about" that deal.
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The trilateral meetings' communique said Asian economies were expected to maintain relatively robust growth thanks to a long-awaited cyclical recovery in manufacturing and trade.
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They went on a study trip to the cerrado and joined forces with movements in Brazil and Japan, in a mirror of Prosavana's trilateral structure.
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During a meeting with Vucic, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu proposed trilateral tactical exercises with Belarus, to be dubbed "Slavic brotherhood", the government statement said.
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau subsequently told the Canadian Press that Ottawa will pursue a trilateral deal because it is better for all three countries.
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She will also take part in a meeting with U.S. and Japanese counterparts on Thursday to continue trilateral discussions on steel overcapacity, the spokesman said.
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Trump wants to hold out for a more comprehensive agreement and bring China into a trilateral discussion with the Russians, something Beijing has adamantly rejected.
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Fears that other markets could be lost also eased after the trilateral trade deal signed by the United States, Canada and Mexico on Oct. 1.
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The Canadian dollar traded at C$1.2815 per dollar after rallying to a four-month high of C$1.2782 overnight following the trilateral trade pact.
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When the United States was in talks with Canada and Mexico to revise their trilateral trade pact and negotiations dragged, the president threatened auto tariffs.
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"My hope is that Pakistan as a country is not isolated by this but is encouraged by this," Kerry said, referring to the trilateral initiative.
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The Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine is preparing a new truce, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) said on February 28.
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"Any new agreement that excludes Canada would unfortunately be a significant step in the wrong direction compared to the trilateral agreement in place today," Sen.
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Xinhua said Li made the remarks during a trilateral meeting in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
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That trilateral deal, which has been kept in the House by Democrats who demand changes, received almost no attention in the previous debate in Michigan.
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I think we can get there this week, I really do," she said, before cautioning that this week's trilateral talks would be "harsh" and "intensive.
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The Canadian dollar traded at C$75.773 per dollar after rallying to a four-month high of C$1.2782 overnight following the trilateral trade pact.
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He had a subscription to a white supremacist newspaper, which explained how the Rothchilds, the Trilateral Commission and Jewish banks wielded power over the globe.
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Macron, Johnson and Angela Merkel hold a trilateral meeting later on Monday to coordinate their Iran strategy ahead of likely meetings with Trump and Rouhani.
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A smart modernization of NAFTA would amplify trilateral trade benefits that have accrued for so many economic sectors since the agreement took effect in 28503.
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"I think [Mexico is] viewing the back and forth largely as encouraging if it means we are taking steps toward a trilateral agreement," Garza said.
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This was their sixth meeting and the two leaders reconfirmed the importance of maintaining close trilateral cooperation among Japan, the United States and South Korea.
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"As a close security and trade partner of the US, the EU must be excluded from the announced measures," she tweeted after bilateral and trilateral meetings.
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But given that last week it was looking to be more of a Mexico-US deal as opposed to a trilateral deal, it's a positive development.
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Bolton referred to Iran as a "radical regime" that supports "violent provocations abroad," ahead of a trilateral meeting with his Israeli and Russian counterparts in Jerusalem.
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NAFTA, which Trump had called "the worst trade deal ever," has been renegotiated into a new trilateral deal with Canada and Mexico, known as the USMCA.
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Trump touted the deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement with a new trilateral pact called the USMCA, for United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
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U.S. business groups, alarmed by the potential disruption to the three increasingly integrated economies, have lobbied the White House to keep NAFTA as a trilateral deal.
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"I have reached out to both, Ukrainian and Russian partners, and invited them for trilateral talks," European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said in a statement.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Iran and Iraq may hold a trilateral meeting to discuss the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum, Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday.
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Erdogan failed to secure a pledge for a ceasefire from Russia and Iran, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's main backers, at a trilateral summit in Tehran.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement, a trilateral trade deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, was passed by Congress in 1993 during Bill Clinton's presidency.
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Over the summer, the U.S. halted trilateral negotiations and moved to pursue a deal with Mexico alone, in hopes that Canada would sign on under pressure.
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Two years later, the United States persuaded South Korea and Japan to sign a trilateral pact on sharing intelligence on North Korea's nuclear and missile activities.
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Trump was speaking to reporters in the host city of Osaka, western Japan, ahead of a trilateral meeting with Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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The trilateral agreement was signed by U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, Canada's Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr, and Mexico's Secretary of Energy, Pedro Joaquín Coldwell.
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"Any new agreement that excludes Canada would unfortunately be a significant step in the wrong direction compared to the trilateral agreement in place today," he wrote.
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"It is imperative that a trilateral agreement be inked," Jay Timmons, the president and chief executive of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement.
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"My job is to continue to be optimistic," Mr. Morneau said, suggesting that he sensed a desire by the United States to preserve the trilateral pact.
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The strikes occurred a day after Russia, Turkey and Iran failed to agree on a ceasefire in Idlib at a trilateral summit in the Iranian capital.
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These will not be easy tasks and will arguably be more difficult in a trilateral arrangement than they were in the multilateral Trans-Pacific Partnership process.
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Commenting on an invitation from the bloc to relaunch trilateral gas talks, Naftogaz chief Andriy Kobolev voiced doubts over Russia's willingness to engage in serious talks.
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The move erased a rise in U.S. yields on Monday following the negotiation of a trilateral free-trade pact between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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IT'S EASIER IF YOU DO IT BILATERALLY, TO GET SOME KIND OF FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT IN PRINCIPAL THAT MAY OR MAY NOT BECOME A TRILATERAL AGREEMENT. RIGHT?
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae on Monday at a trilateral meeting in Chengdu, China.
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Ross, who has floated the idea of doing two bilateral trade deals with Canada and Mexico, declined to confirm the administration's preference for a trilateral approach.
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That means the deadline could be extended far out into the future, if all three countries agreed to either renew or renegotiate the trilateral trade pact.
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Trump also noted that he "looks forward to continued trilateral coordination" on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly later this month in New York.
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Wang said that he had agreed with Payne that the two countries could combine their respective strengths and embark on trilateral cooperation with Pacific island countries.
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Last month, Cyprus President Anastasiades, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a trilateral summit in Jerusalem to boost energy cooperation.
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Syria's leadership is committed to the peace process, constitutional reform and free elections, Putin said after the trilateral meeting held in the southern Russian city of Sochi.
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While in Hawaii on Thursday, Biden will attend a trilateral meeting with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama and South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lim Sung-nam.
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MEXICO CITY, July 25 (Reuters) - Mexico's next Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Wednesday that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) should remain a trilateral agreement.
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Ushakov also said that a previously agreed trilateral meeting of leaders from Russia, Germany and France, who were poised to discuss Ukraine's crisis, will not take place.
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Bezsmertny represents Ukraine in the working group on political issues of the Trilateral Contact Group, a body that aims to facilitate a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.
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Lawmakers have urged the White House to continue working to retain a trilateral pact that has become critical to automakers, farmers and other businesses across North America.
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Canada is the only country still to ratify the trilateral United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which updates the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Canada is the only country still to ratify the trilateral United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), which updates the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Canada's top trade negotiator joins her Mexican and U.S. counterparts in Washington on Tuesday in a bid to remain part of the trilateral North American trade pact.
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The trilateral summits date back to the fallout from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which devastated businesses across the region and prompted moves toward greater economic integration.
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This is a very difficult trilateral context in which these countries are supposed to work on the peaceful resolution of the military confrontation on the Korean Peninsula.
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Though NAFTA is a trilateral deal, Freeland noted that many issues were chiefly bilateral, which is what she said the United States and Mexico were concentrating on.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Friday after a trilateral summit with Turkey about Syria, Fars News reported.
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Canada, however, may be emboldened by hostility within America to anything less than a trilateral deal, and by the domestic political payoff from standing up to Mr Trump.
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Foreign ministers Kang Kyung-wha of South Korea, Taro Kono of Japan and Wang Yi of China will have trilateral meetings in Beijing from Tuesday evening to Thursday.
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At the meeting, the two countries agreed to deepen their cooperation on North Korea and to hold a trilateral summit with South Korea at the earliest possible date.
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"Of course we are partners in a trilateral trade agreement and that is an important North American partnership, but each country also does have bilateral issues," she said.
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It was the three countries' first trilateral meeting in two-and-a-half years, even though the first such powwow, in 2008, was heralded as an annual event.
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Fritz said it's "critically important" that the U.S. ratify the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trilateral deal that will replace the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The trilateral tests were the third in a series aimed at boosting missile defense cooperation among the three allies, US Navy 7th Fleet spokesman Lt. Paul Newell said.
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Trump therefore needs to learn to become a more disciplined and diplomatic savvy president when it comes to the highly sensitive trilateral relations between Beijing, Taipei and Washington.
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Although initial expectations were of a trilateral meeting between Trump, Netanyahu and Abbas, those expectations were dramatically scaled back, replaced with confidence-building measures between the two sides.
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Unit said all three companies had signed the agreement as equal partners, and added that this marked the first trilateral deal an Iranian company signed with foreign partners.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets his Canadian counterpart for the first time for talks that touch on the trilateral NAFTA trade agreement, which Trump wants to renegotiate.
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Speaking in Germany, Nieto said differences between the parties could be overcome to revamp the 24-year-old accord, which underpins some $1.2 trillion in annual trilateral trade.
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But Canada's auto sector, which is heavily integrated with both the U.S. and Mexican industries, said only a trilateral deal would work for Canadian automakers and parts suppliers.
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Then on Saturday, the Trilateral Partnership countries of the US, Japan and Australia released a joint statement declaring together they would identify infrastructure projects for development and financing.
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Very important trilateral issues still need to be resolved, including: The bottom line is that the U.S., Mexico and Canada are closing in on a new NAFTA agreement.
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"We have to work for a de-escalation of the situation," he told reporters after a meeting with his counterparts aimed at reinvigorating the Weimar Triangle trilateral group.
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Mexican officials said on Monday that they wanted to have Canada back in the process and were working toward a trilateral deal by the end of the week.
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I was in Paris over the weekend for the annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission, and it's sad to see how distrustful our allies have become toward America.
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"The Commission stands ready to steer a trilateral process which in the past has already proven to be effective in situations of disagreement," Sefcovic said in a statement.
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China and North Korea have long sought to reduce the US military presence in Northeast Asia by throwing wrenches in the trilateral relationship between Washington, Seoul and Tokyo.
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Negotiations on a deal between the U.S and Canada are still ongoing, and Mexico has said it is keen on Canada joining the agreement to make it trilateral.
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Both men attended the 0003 Billionaires' Dinner, an annual event put on by the literary agent John Brockman, and belonged to the invitation-only Trilateral Commission in 2003.
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Republican Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa said from the meeting it sounded to him as if a trilateral deal was more likely "unless there's problems" with that approach.
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To that end, at a joint press conference recently, the U.S. and Mexico energy secretaries declared that they have identified common goals for a trilateral agenda with Canada.
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Here's what you need to know about USMCA, the trilateral trade agreement formerly known as NAFTA, and what it means for the three countries and for Trump's trade strategy.
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The Security Council sanctions, as we have agreed in our trilateral meeting, will remain in place and faithfully implemented until we are assured of complete denuclearization by North Korea.
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Here he is with then-Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (C) and Abe (R), at a trilateral meeting at the G22016 Summit on November 16, 2014 in Brisbane, Australia.
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Would the U.S. be open to Chinese demands that all parties to a trilateral agreement have the same ceilings — which would require dramatic cuts by Russia and the U.S.?
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Officers note that South Korean, Japanese and American ships held anti-ballistic missile exercises in June 2016, as fears of North Korean aggression mounted—their first such trilateral exercise.
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Canada and Mexico say several U.S. proposals for modernizing the North American Free Trade Agreement are unacceptable, prompting increasing concern that Washington could walk away from the trilateral deal.
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U.S. threats to walk away from NAFTA, which underpins much of the more than $1 trillion in annual trilateral trade among the three nations, have put markets on edge.
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In a setback, the diplomatic crisis derailed a conference on the water-energy swap idea and a trilateral official meeting on how to move forward with the 13 projects.
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Investors continue to closely watch global trade developments, after the U.S. and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to revamp NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico.
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Some lawmakers have said that a bilateral deal would face a higher vote threshold in Congress because the NAFTA fast-track negotiating authority law calls for a trilateral agreement.
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"This proposal for a trilateral agreement is, in reality, a poison pill designed to provide a pretext to allow for the [New Start] treaty to expire," Kimball told CNN.
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Last Wednesday (January 11), trade officials from China, Japan and South Korea met in Beijing for the 11th negotiating round on the way to a trilateral free-trade agreement.
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A strong, trilateral alliance between these three countries can arguably provide the most effective policy tool to deter Pyongyang and to promote lasting peace and security in the region.
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Products covered include natural gas, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, rubber, metals, industrial and electrical machinery and precision instruments, the site said, adding they account for $166 billion in annual trilateral trade.
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But Canadian officials, who note increasing political pressure on Trump from U.S. business and labor circles to keep NAFTA as a trilateral arrangement, said they were in no hurry.
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Surely, there would be a great deal of give and take, but it's best to address immigration in trilateral talks rather than pursuing the issue in a xenophobic vacuum.
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US, Mexican and Canadian officials have credited Kushner as a central force in bridging the gap between the US and its neighbors to salvage the trilateral free trade pact.
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While NAFTA will generally be a trilateral agreement, its regulatory cooperation component is more conducive to three bilateral approaches at this time: U.S.-Canada, U.S.-Mexico and Canada-Mexico.
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In a meeting on Tuesday, U.S. senators said Ross and new U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer expressed their preference to keep the current trilateral format in the NAFTA talks.
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This visit occurred right before Wednesday's planned trilateral summit between China, Japan and South Korea in Tokyo, where North Korea is expected to be a central topic of discussion.
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Taking effect in 1994, NAFTA underpins much of the more than $1 trillion in annual trilateral trade, and Washington's threats to walk away from the pact have spooked markets.
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It remains unclear whether the metals tariffs would apply to the United States' partners under NAFTA, which together account for more than $1 trillion worth of annual trilateral trade.
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A trilateral deal would need only 51 votes in the Senate, while a bilateral pact would need a far more difficult 60-vote threshold, Republican Senator Pat Toomey said.
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"The negotiation will take as long as it takes to get a good deal," Freeland said after a trilateral meeting in Washington among Mexico, the United States and Canada.
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In Syria, the US is now sidelined while Russia convenes trilateral talks with Iran and Turkey, effectively negotiating terms for an end to Syria's armed conflict without US input.
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Putin stressed the need for the summit to lead to trilateral projects, and invited Moon to Russia for a summit and the World Cup in June, Moon's office said.
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"Our plan is very clear, but the negotiation process is going on," Ibrahim Kalin said, referring to a trilateral meeting between U.S., Russia and Turkey military chiefs this week.
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Zarif posted the message in the midst of a trilateral meeting between Iran, Russia and Turkey focused on a looming battle against militants in Idlib province in northwest Syria.
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It is important to recognize, however, that the bilateral U.S.-Mexico agreement is not a good substitute for a trilateral agreement that brings in Canada, America's largest trading partner.
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The latest flurry of trilateral engagement comes as Lighthizer works with House Democrats to make changes to the USMCA surrounding the pact's labor, environment, enforcement and prescription drug provisions.
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This trilateral meeting was all the more significant because it marked the first official talks between South Korea's Moon Jae-in and Japan's Shinzo Abe in over 85033 months.
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"Once the bilateral issues get resolved, Canada will be joining the talks to work on both bilateral issues and our trilateral issues," Chrystia Freeland, Canada's foreign minister, said Friday.
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"The trilateral agreement will be a game changer for regional connectivity especially for Afghanistan which can find an assured and reliable alternate access to India via sea," Baglay said.
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The talks will come during a trip to Beijing from Tuesday until Thursday for a meeting with their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, the first such trilateral gathering in three years.
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The United States, Japan, and South Korea signed a separate deal, the Trilateral Information Sharing Arrangement (TISA) in 2014, in the face of North Korea's growing nuclear and missile threats.
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"I think it should be trilateral," she told reporters, adding she did not think it would be "in the interest of this hemisphere" to turn NAFTA into a bilateral deal.
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In contrast, a wary optimist would argue that odds are in favor of positive progress, but only if political destabilization can be avoided at home and trilateral cooperation prevails regionally.
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"Anything other than a trilateral agreement won't win Congressional approval and would lose business support," the chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Thomas Donohue, said in a statement.
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Trump's threat to Mexico, which could jeopardize the trilateral free-trade deal to replace NAFTA, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA, is only the latest example.
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The current government is working to finalize a trilateral cooperation between India, Iran and Afghanistan to facilitate better regional connectivity and flow of goods, services and people in the region.
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The three ministers share the understanding that Japan will host a trilateral summit this year, though dates have yet to be worked out, a Japanese Foreign Ministry official told reporters.
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Many of those countries, unsure of the US's commitment to providing security in a potential conflict, are also putting more effort into working together through bilateral and trilateral security agreements.
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President Donald Trump is set to deliver remarks on the trilateral trade deal to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement, known as the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
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Yet tensions over and with both Koreas, and strategic concerns about the peninsula, get fewer mentions because they do not feature much in the archives of bilateral or trilateral relations.
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Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of NAFTA, which underpins more than $1 trillion worth of trilateral trade in the region, if it is not recast to his liking.
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David MacNaughton, Canada's ambassador to the United States, said he was confident that talks to modernize the North American Free Trade Agreement would maintain the trilateral natures of the pact.
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Japan has its own missile defense system -- the SM-3 and the Patriot PAC-3 -- and has recently practiced a trilateral missile-threat response with the US and South Korea.
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Despite their differences, Moon and Abe decided to resume "shuttle diplomacy" as agreed last year and hold a trilateral summit between Japan, South Korea and China as soon as possible.
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The visit would be Trudeau's first trip to Mexico since taking office in 2015 and come in the midst of trilateral talks to update the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Since a trilateral agreement involving Iran, Iraq and Turkey was signed last Friday, Turkish officials have stated on several occasions they will work only with the central government in Baghdad.
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Tillerson said Canada, Mexico and the United States had agreed at a trilateral meeting last week to study what could be done to mitigate the impact of such a move.
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Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday that Canada supported NAFTA as a trilateral agreement and noted that Trudeau had talked to Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto over the weekend.
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Kang "expressed concern that this is undesirable in terms of friendly relations between South Korea and Japan and trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the U.S. and Japan", the ministry said.
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Tokyo has, however, managed to show it's still part of the wider discussion on the reclusive regime after a trilateral meeting with China and South Korea on Wednesday, experts said.
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"Manufacturers are extremely encouraged that our call for a trilateral agreement between the United States, Canada and Mexico has been answered," Jay Timmons, president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
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The United States has pressured its two allies to set aside their feud and maintain the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), seen as linchpin of trilateral security cooperation.
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The step comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are expected to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines of a trilateral summit including China.
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The United States also used the North's test to tighten a trilateral alliance with Japan and South Korea, a relationship that China has long viewed as a check on its power.
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U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer also attempted to drive a wedge between Canada and Mexico when he suggested the United States would be willing to hold bilateral, rather than trilateral talks.
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Two people who attended the meeting and took notes told me Abbas said he told Kushner and Greenblatt he would agree to a trilateral confederacy comprised of Israel, Jordan and Palestine.
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The North and South Korean leaders said they would pursue trilateral meetings with the United States and that meetings involving the two Koreas, the United States and China were also possible.
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The new trilateral trade deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico provides a validation of sorts for the bare-knuckle negotiating strategy that has won President Donald Trump so many critics.
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The U.S. State Department later issued a statement noting the importance of U.S.-Japan-South Korea trilateral cooperation, and agreed to continue working closely to address common challenges in the region.
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Canada can also sign onto that deal at a later time, which, the administration said Monday, means they believe Congress will accept it as a replacement for the trilateral trade deal.
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Although the two have met in Washington in each of the last three weeks, officials are still seeking common ground on major issues in the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement.
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In a joint statement, Merkel and Hollande strongly endorsed a ceasefire deal to take effect at the start of the new school year that was brokered by the trilateral contact group.
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Along with David Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, Brzezinski helped to found the Trilateral Commission, a private group that promoted closer ties between North America, Western Europe and Japan.
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Charles Grassley said on Tuesday that he believes the Trump administration will likely pursue a trilateral trade deal with Canada and Mexico as it renegotiates the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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"Once the bilateral issues get resolved, Canada will be joining the talks to work on both bilateral issues and our trilateral issues," Chrystia Freeland, Canada's foreign minister, told reporters on Friday.
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Foreign ministers from China, Japan and South Korea showed unusual solidarity during a trilateral meeting in Tokyo overshadowed by territorial and security-related disputes between China and both of its interlocutors.
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The leaders of the Canada, Mexico, and the United States unveiled a sweeping plan to reduce carbon emissions during this year's trilateral North American Leaders' Summit, held today in Ottawa, Canada.
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Extensive trilateral cooperation between the United States, South Korea and Japan will help ensure that there is no such daylight between U.S. allies on the goals for negotiations with North Korea.
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On the contrary, everything was working according to a secret scheme, engineered by a shadowy cabal of figures gathered under names like The Bilderberg Group, the Trilateral Commission, and the Illuminati.
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"While this is a trilateral agreement ... there are also significant bilateral trading issues between each of the countries," said Freeland, adding that she welcomed bilateral talks between Canada's two NAFTA partners.
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That is why there will be bilateral and trilateral agreements, how can we help each other - not always wait for all 28 members but think about what is important to whom.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday that NAFTA trade talks between the United States, Canada and Mexico should be trilateral, saying that approach was common sense.
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They also said the United States and Saudi Arabia will open new channels for security cooperation, including launching a trilateral dialogue among the U.S., the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates.
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The step comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are expected to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines of a trilateral summit that includes China.
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The step comes as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in are expected to meet on Tuesday on the sidelines of a trilateral summit that includes China.
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He added that arrangements were being made for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the sidelines of a trilateral summit including China next week.
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The recent trilateral missile defense exercises and the signing of an intelligence information-sharing agreement between Seoul and Tokyo have been historic developments and we must continue to build on this progress.
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Iran, Russia and Turkey ended truce talks in Kazakhstan on Tuesday with the announcement of a trilateral mechanism to observe and ensure full compliance with a shaky truce between Syrian warring parties.
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Trump's trade chief rejected Canadian proposals for unblocking NAFTA modernization talks on Monday but pledged to seek "breakthroughs" by late February, easing concerns that Washington would soon withdraw from the trilateral pact.
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But even before the current tariff threat, trade turmoil beginning with Trumps threat to withdraw from the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement had prompted Mexico to talk about broadening its suppliers.
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Though Trump has touted the deal as "historic," the trilateral trade agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the US is basically a revised version of NAFTA, with some important changes on the margins.
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Both agreed to establish a joint commission to investigate the assassination, and are proceeding with a scheduled trilateral meeting of foreign and defense ministers with Iran in Moscow Tuesday despite the killing.
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A joint statement released by America, Japan and the European Union pledged "to enhance trilateral co-operation in the WTO" when dealing with excess capacity, forced technology transfer and local-content requirements.
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U.S. officials intend to sign the new trilateral deal at the end of November, after which it would be submitted to the U.S. Congress for approval, according to a senior U.S. official.
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"I am optimistic that a trilateral deal can be reached... we have from now until Friday for a deal in principle to be announced," he said in an interview on local radio.
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Optimism surrounding a last-minute deal between the United States and Canada on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, had increased the appetite for riskier assets on Monday.
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Disagreements over North Korea and historical issues have long dogged relations between the three Asian powers, though they have held several such trilateral meetings since 2008, most recently in Seoul in 2015.
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Such a trilateral approach is much stronger than if the U.S. had separate bilateral deals with Mexico and Canada, since we can now treat the combined three countries as a single market.
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And senior military leaders from the United States, South Korea and Japan held a trilateral meeting in Hawaii Wednesday, pledging to redouble intelligence sharing on the reclusive nation's nuclear and missile threat.
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Potentially more complicated is the trilateral relationship involving the United States, Russia and Turkey, which is starting to resemble a game of musical chairs, with the loser forfeiting influence in the region.
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Trump said a new agreement would no longer be called NAFTA, which sparked questions about the requirements of the law, which is a trilateral agreement signed in 2900 by former President Clinton.
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It's not clear whether pursuing bilateral trade agreements with the two countries would effectively end the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, which has been in place for more than two decades.
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He also said he would welcome a further round of trilateral talks to be brokered by the European Commission to cover transit even though he believed Ukraine could survive without Russian gas.
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The three governments should create a trilateral task force on workforce development, with public-private, federal-sub-federal working groups, to develop proposals and strategies to meet emerging skills and jobs needs.
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"I think it should be trilateral," Pelosi told reporters, adding that she does not think it would be "in the interest of this hemisphere" to turn NAFTA into a bilateral trade agreement.
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But even before the current tariff threat, trade turmoil beginning with Trump's threat to withdraw from the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement had prompted Mexico to talk about broadening its suppliers.
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The State Department said the two reaffirmed their commitment to the final, fully verified denuclearisation of North Korea and the importance of trilateral cooperation between the United States, Japan and South Korea.
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A senior administration official said they will have a better sense of whether they will need to notify Congress of a bilateral or a trilateral agreement by the end of the week.
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Any agreement that does not involve Canada is likely to face legal challenges and intense opposition from Congress, which had granted the Trump administration authority to renegotiate Nafta as a trilateral deal.
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But Canada's adoption of a more restrictive threshold during its efforts last month to salvage a trilateral deal prompted Mexican negotiators to follow Canada's lead, Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Friday.
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The question now becomes whether a trilateral accord becomes a bilateral one, or whether Mr. Trump's threats pressure Canada to return to the negotiating table and accede to many of his demands.
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At a recent Trilateral Commission conference in Silicon Valley, there was discussion of the irresponsibility of internet companies in modern democracy — but also tough words about the role of the mainstream media.
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"Many of those countries and the companies within them are also looking for bilateral and trilateral trade agreements in addition to or maybe even separate from TPP," Moritz said in an interview.
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Notably absent from the talks, which followed on from a trilateral summit in Sochi last November, were representatives from Syria itself and from the United States, another important player in the conflict.
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"A number of congressmen have already spoken out saying, 'It's really important that this final agreement be trilateral and we're not sure that we would approve it if it's not,'" Wayne said.
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At the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires this month, the three issued a joint statement calling for enhanced trilateral cooperation to address a "critical concern" in the global economy.
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Officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico met for the final round of NAFTA talks Monday, but sources told Reuters that the renegotiations would end without a trilateral statement between the countries.
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But the prospects of a last-minute agreement with Canada remain grim after weeks of a negotiating impasse over a revised NAFTA, the trilateral trade agreement between the US, Canada, and Mexico.
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Mexican officials have also said they are ready to return to the U.S. to wrap up talks on trilateral issues once the U.S. and Canada have reached an agreement on bilateral issues.
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U.S President Donald Trump's predecessor Barack Obama sought to improve ties between Seoul and Tokyo in 2014 by engineering a trilateral summit between Abe and then-South Korean president Park Geun-hye.
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Abe and Xi agreed to continue to work toward creating multilateral free-trade pacts, including RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership) and a trilateral Japan-China-South Korea free trade agreement, Nishimura said.
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The U.S. demands to reserve the lion's share of automotive manufacturing for the United States helped cast a pall over the talks to revamp the accord underpinning $1.2 trillion in annual trilateral trade.
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The surprisingly blunt statement jars with Seoul's rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could rattle the fragile trilateral diplomacy to defuse a nuclear crisis that last year had many fearing war.
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Foreign ministers from the three Asian neighbours also sought to soothe their often-testy relations, and have reached an understanding on a trilateral summit meeting in Japan this year, a Japanese official said.
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The big picture: Three weeks from now, Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will host a trilateral summit in Jerusalem with his U.S. counterpart John Bolton and his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev.
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Kang "expressed concern that this is undesirable in terms of friendly relations between South Korea and Japan and trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the U.S. and Japan", Kang's ministry said in a statement.
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Our thesis was that NAFTA was merely the trilateral recognition of a new emerging architecture in North America of cross-border integration of production, supply chains, management systems, and financial operations of companies.
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Freeland spoke after Washington talks with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo in search of a breakthrough on NAFTA, which underpins some $1.2 trillion in annual trilateral trade.
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"I think it should be trilateral," Pelosi told reporters according to Reuters, adding she did not think it would be "in the interest of this hemisphere" to turn NAFTA into a bilateral deal.
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We know that earlier negotiations had yielded significant trilateral progress on issues such as sanitary standards for agricultural goods, transparency, anti-corruption, regulatory practices, the treatment of small and medium enterprises and telecommunication.
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Kang "expressed concern that this is undesirable in terms of friendly relations between South Korea and Japan and trilateral cooperation among South Korea, the U.S. and Japan," Kang's ministry said in a statement.
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She also reiterated that South Korea would not enter any trilateral military alliance with the United States and Japan, something that Mr. Xi raised concerns about when he met Mr. Moon in July.
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Now, the question becomes whether a trilateral pact becomes a bilateral deal — or Mr. Trump's threats pressure Canada to return to the negotiating table and accede to many of the United States' demands.
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WASHINGTON — The United States and Canada reached a last-minute deal to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement on Sunday, overcoming deep divisions to keep the 25-year-old trilateral pact intact.
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As welcome as a U.S.-Mexico agreement is, the ultimate goal must be a modern trilateral agreement that allows all three North American countries to prosper in a highly competitive global trading system.
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If the talks were "trilateral" that would include North and South Korea and the United States but not China, which sent millions of troops to fight on North Korea's side during the war.
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"As long as it is a talk, China is willing to support it: either it is formal or informal, one-track or dual-track, bilateral, trilateral or quadrilateral," Mr. Wang said in Beijing.
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The pressure tactic against Seoul, the weakest link in the U.S.-led trilateral (with Japan) alliance structure in Northeast Asia, gave wind to North Korea's game of driving wedges among the three democracies.
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Mexico and Canada have stood firm on the importance of maintaining the trilateral format of the NAFTA free trade deal, even as Trump has signaled a desire for individual deals with each country.
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Steve Verheul, Canada's chief negotiator, told an Ottawa audience that the United States aimed to weaken Canada and Mexico rather than ensure that the $1.2 trillion trilateral trade pact benefited all three members.
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Kevin Hassett, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, told Fox News that the revised NAFTA agreement could end up being a bilateral rather than trilateral agreement if Canada doesn't come around soon.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Xi separately before going to the southwestern city of Chengdu for a trilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.
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Cover image: Iran's President Hassan Rouhani looks on at a news conference following trilateral talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss prospects for Syrian peace process.
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue urged U.S. officials to "do no harm" to businesses that depend on trade with Canada and Mexico and to move quickly on a new trilateral deal.
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He said he hoped to maintain the current trilateral format of NAFTA, but noted that many of NAFTA's problems are bilateral issues that need to be worked out with either Mexico or Canada.
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Israeli officials said this was one of the reasons Netanyahu organized a trilateral meeting with Hernández and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Tuesday in Brasilia on the sidelines of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's inauguration.
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The Canadian dollar, which has been boosted this week by optimism that a trilateral deal to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement could be reached, weakened about 0.6 percent against its U.S. counterpart.
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Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Wednesday that he had spoken with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and was "hopeful" Canada could soon hold trilateral NAFTA talks with the United States and Mexico.
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He is touting Trump's revised trilateral trade deal, adding to the administration's efforts to pass the agreement over the summer -- a drive to secure key 2016 campaign promise heading into the 2020 campaign season.
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Here he is with then Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (C) and Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe (R), at a trilateral meeting at the G22014 Summit on November 29, 224 in Brisbane, Australia. 22010.
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Rockefeller established several international and philanthropic associations: the Americas Society, the weighty Trilateral Commission to promote cooperation between North America, Europe and Japan, and the New York City Partnership to help the city's poor.
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Speaking after the first trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of China, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Wang said China hoped the economic corridor could benefit the whole region and act as an impetus for development.
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Turkey's foreign ministry and Russian and Iranian diplomats who attended trilateral talks in Kazakhstan said on Friday their observers would be stationed in "safe zones" along the border of the Idlib de-escalation area.
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Nevertheless, Trump's warnings have Mexico preparing for something hard to imagine even a few months ago - life without the agreement that boosted trilateral trade to around $1 trillion annually from $23 billion in 1993.
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Alongside the U.S. and Canada, Mexico is in the midst of eight-month-old talks to try to update the NAFTA deal — which is thought to underpin about $1.2 trillion in yearly trilateral trade.
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In this regard, the U.S. and EU should build on their existing efforts (conducted in a trilateral context with Japan) to develop a constructive agenda towards tackling unfair trade practices and reforming the WTO.
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MEXICO CITY, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Mexico's top steel industry association on Tuesday urged the country's government to resolve an ongoing tariff dispute with the Trump administration before a new trilateral trade deal is signed.
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Yet, the divergent levels of progress in recent years between the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico regulatory cooperation processes clearly demonstrate that forcing a trilateral approach could slow progress to the lowest common denominator.
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Finance officials from Japan, China and South Korea agreed to resist all forms of protectionism in Friday's trilateral meeting, taking a stronger stand than G20 major economies against the protectionist policies advocated by Trump.
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Democrats could solve the conundrum by introducing language — preferably in the implementing bill, but potentially also in a trilateral side letter to Chapter 31 of the agreement — to ensure that dispute resolution works properly.
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SEOUL, July 11 (Reuters) - South Korea's foreign minister told U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that Japan's export curbs against South Korea are "undesirable" for trilateral cooperation, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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As the three leaders prepared for their trilateral summit meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting this week, the White House has struck an increasingly bellicose tone toward North Korea.
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A new trilateral trade deal with the United States and Canada, aimed at replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement, helped the balance of risks to growth decrease at the margin, the minutes said.
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is in Washington to continue negotiations, following the news that Mexico and the U.S. have already reached an agreement that rewrites the trilateral trade pact, first ratified in 1994.
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Ottawa is pushing back against increasing pressure by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump and its allies to make the concessions they say are needed for the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement.
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His comments came ahead of a meeting on Wednesday between Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs Taro Kono and his South Korean counterpart, Kang Kyung-wha, in Beijing on the sidelines of trilateral talks including China.
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Putin made the comments on a one-day trip to Tehran for trilateral talks between Azerbaijan, Iran and Russia, during which he met with both Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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In order to effectively counter the North Korean threat, the US must strengthen its alliances in the region and build a genuine and lasting trilateral alliance between the US, the Republic of Korea, and Japan.
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But their history and territory disputes stemming from the Japan's colonial occupation have often complicated Washington's efforts to strengthen trilateral cooperation to deal with North Korea's nuclear threat and China's growing influence in the region.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in Washington on Wednesday that a resolution of trilateral steel tariff dispute is close at hand, but Canada's foreign minister avoided direct comment on the prospects for a deal.
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"We're going to get denuclearization," he stressed at the joint news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono, following their trilateral meeting in South Korea&aposs capital.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's trade chief rejected Canadian proposals for unblocking NAFTA modernization talks on Monday but pledged to seek "breakthroughs" by late February, easing concerns that Washington would soon withdraw from the trilateral pact.
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"Business Roundtable urges the administration to expand trade and investment — not introduce new barriers and uncertainties — as it negotiates with China and works to deliver a modern, trilateral NAFTA for the American people," Bolten said.
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Regarding NAFTA, Donohue added that he did not believe it was possible to do a U.S. Mexico-only trade deal, because Congress prefers a trilateral deal and has not granted authority for a bilateral deal.
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There had been a trilateral meeting with the President of Chile and the Prime Minister of Canada on trade, at the Bloomberg Business Forum, and a climate-change meeting hosted by the U.N. Secretary-General.
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The three parties agreeing to engage in shadow peace treaty talks could have the spillover effect of creating stronger U.S.-China-South Korea trilateral trust, allowing for better coordination against future provocative behavior by Pyongyang.
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Guajardo said he had spoken to Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday and would talk to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Tuesday to see about agreeing a trilateral meeting in Washington on Thursday.
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Creating a variety of standards through a number of bilateral and trilateral trade deals could wind up hurting small and mid-sized American companies that may find it costly to keep up with the differences.
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Canada appeared to be taking a more conciliatory approach toward its ongoing talks with the United States to salvage the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), days after Washington struck a deal with Mexico.
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Kerry said the United States would open the trilateral talks at the forthcoming United Nations meetings in New York with a view to stabilizing Afghanistan, whose U.S.-backed government is struggling to contain Taliban rebels.
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From Watergate through 2009, America's major diplomatic breakthroughs were generally either arms control deals with the Soviet Union or Russia, or trilateral agreements meant to protect Israel's long-term security, like Camp David and Oslo.
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Both Canada and Mexico have readily acknowledged that NAFTA is due for an update, given the technological advancements and seismic shifts in supply chain management since the trilateral deal was signed over two decades ago.
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Opening that trilateral meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel pressed for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Syria, in particular those of Iran and Iranian proxies near the frontier with Israel.
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Defence Minister Takeshi Iwaya said on Tuesday bilateral and trilateral cooperation between Japan, South Korea, and the United States was crucial and urged Seoul to reconsider scrapping the ban before it officially expires in November.
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" The conservative Heritage Foundation warned in a new report this month that "the US government has an important role to play in mediating the relationship between Tokyo and Seoul and protecting vital trilateral security coordination.
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Indonesia and its neighbors have wisely taken steps to increase regional cooperation to confront this problem through efforts such as the Trilateral Maritime Patrol Indomalphi, a joint security initiative between Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
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Trump has repeatedly indicated he would prefer to reach bilateral agreements with Canada and Mexico, but the two countries have maintained a united front that a trilateral agreement is the only one they will sign.
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Russia does not believe there is time to negotiate a new arms control agreement prior to the expiration of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, and China has emphatically rejected joining such a trilateral endeavor.
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Trump indicó que el costo por la construcción del muro recaería de forma indirecta en México por medio del nuevo acuerdo comercial trilateral T-MEC, lo que ya ha sido descartado por quienes lo negociaron.
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Moon may meet with Trump before the U.S. president's summit with Kim, and the South Korean president is also expected to meet with his Japanese and Chinese counterparts at a trilateral summit in early May.
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Imagine a trilateral major power contest – involving China, Russia and the United States – where one of the players is operating according to a clear set of prescribed rules while the other two parties lack such constraints.
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Putin arrived in Tehran on Friday to attend a trilateral meeting with Iran and Turkey focused on the Syrian province of Idlib, the last stronghold of active opposition to the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
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Yun promised South Korea's support to realise a trilateral summit by year's end, as well as to cooperate economically and to achieve a successful summit of the Group of 20 big economies next month in China.
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Details: Afterward, Kim walked with Trump over to the South Korean side of the border, where he met South Korean President Moon Jae-in for the first trilateral meeting between the leaders of the 3 countries.
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Driving the news: Amid a new round of heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, national security adviser John Bolton will travel to Israel on Saturday for a trilateral summit with his Israeli and Russian counterparts.
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The three ministers, who together are in charge of the talks, have not all met together since convening in Washington on Monday and officials said they were not aware of any scheduled trilateral gatherings this week.
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The phone call came after Mexico, the United States and Canada agreed on a new trilateral trade deal late Sunday, which Lopez Obrador hailed as a "good accord" that would create economic certainty and encourage investment.
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"I will say that we have been making good progress on the rules of origin in our conversations with the U.S., with Mexico, and in our trilateral conversation," Freeland told reporters, but declined to give details.
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While U.S. President Donald Trump agreed a new trade pact with Mexico and Canada, a controversial clause in the trilateral agreement, forbidding similar deals with "non-market" countries, was seen as raising risks for Sino-U.
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CHICAGO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures rose to their highest prices since April on Monday after the United States, Canada and Mexico said they struck a deal on a trilateral trade pact.
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President Donald Trump announced the trilateral deal, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, at the end of September and wants it signed before Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto leaves office on Saturday.
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Even with further U.S.-Mexico progress this week, Canada needs to review the results of bilateral U.S.-Mexico negotiations and then all three must turn to very difficult trilateral issues that still need to be resolved.
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Though the Assad regime has largely won the country's more than seven-year civil war - with a trilateral cease-fire deal made last year between Syria, Russia and Iran - the regime and Russia routinely strike Idlib.
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"We are confident that an exception could be made in this case," he said, "so that any impending U.S. sanctions would not undermine India's well-intentioned, win-win investment in the implementation of our trilateral agreement."
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic said after hosting trilateral gas talks with Russia and Ukraine on Monday that he expected no problems with supplies of Russian gas via Ukraine to Europe this winter.
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Although China was not a direct party in the Singapore summit earlier this month, China has already made its involvement clear, calling for a second trilateral summit between China, Japan and South Korea later this year.
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The new trilateral deal, called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), will raise the minimum North American content threshold for cars needed to qualify for duty-free market access to 75 percent from 62.5 percent.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The steel industries of Mexico and Canada on Tuesday urged their governments to resolve a tariff dispute with the United States before signing a new trilateral trade deal that was unveiled this week.
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Finance leaders of Japan, China and South Korea last week agreed to resist all forms of protectionism in a trilateral meeting, taking a stronger stand than major G20 economies against the protectionist policies advocated by Trump.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump has approved a deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), keeping the trilateral pact with Canada and Mexico, a source familiar with the decision said on Sunday.
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"In the next 48 hours, we will know whether we will have a trilateral text or whether we will have to release the text of a bilateral understanding" which could then be adapted to incorporate Canada.
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Mr. Netanyahu said Tuesday that he hoped to arrange a trilateral meeting with the United States and Russia to discuss Iran and Syria, giving rise to speculation that the American participant could be Mr. Trump himself.
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Ross said the filing also indicated the U.S. would be "totally happy" if Canada were to get on board and make the deal trilateral, like the one it's replacing, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement.
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Mr. Toomey said he remained deeply concerned that the administration had not rolled back the steel and aluminum tariffs that it had imposed on Canada and Mexico after the trilateral trade agreement was reached last year.
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"If a trilateral deal is meant as a substitute or prerequisite for extending New Start, it is a poison pill, no ifs, ands or buts," said Daryl G. Kimball, executive director of the Arms Control Association.
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"I think it should be trilateral," Pelosi told reporters, adding that she did not think it would be "in the interest of this hemisphere" to turn the North American Free Trade Agreement into a bilateral deal.
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China, Japan and South Korea are already in the initial stages of discussing a trilateral trade deal, and Beijing has been pushing its own limited Asian regional trade pact that excludes Washington for the past five years.
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"We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement," spokesman Geng Shuang said at his daily press briefing.
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Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference the two countries and South Korea will have a trilateral summit at the G20 meeting, but he didn't want to speculate on what might be said there.
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Katsuyuki Kawai, an adviser to Abe, is in Washington this week seeking, he told Reuters before departure, to reinforce the alliance and talk up the need for trilateral coordination among the United States, Japan and South Korea.
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At the Council on Foreign Relations, at Bilderberg meetings, or on the Trilateral Commission which he founded in 1973, he relished discussing world affairs with people of equal quality and influence from North America, Europe and Asia.
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Sentiment was lifted by a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rescuing a $1.2 trillion a year open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Wednesday that he is optimistic that the country will reach a trilateral deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with the United States and Canada.
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Although Tillerson has not been a prominent player in the NAFTA discussions, the future of the treaty is certain to loom over his visit, especially at a trilateral meeting with Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday.
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The sources, with knowledge of the effort to modernize the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), said the proposal on investment would not elaborate on possible changes being weighed by Washington under Chapter 11 of NAFTA.
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South Korea may consider revoking a military information sharing pact as a countermeasure, a view raised during a trilateral foreign ministers' meeting with the United States and Japan on Friday in Bangkok, said the South Korean official.
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Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its "destructive and reckless path" of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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It was the first trilateral meeting between U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, Canada's minister of agriculture, Lawrence MacAulay, and Mexico's secretary of agriculture, Jose Calzada, since U.S. President Donald Trump said NAFTA would need to be renegotiated.
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Likewise, South Korean President Moon Jae-in's hope for a trilateral summit between the two Koreas and the United States, which would undermine China's influence, has also turned out to be nothing more than a pipe dream.
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Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj told parliament recently that Iran had yet to ratify a trilateral pact to set up the transit corridor to Afghanistan that was signed on a visit last year by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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"We, to address this critical concern, agreed to enhance trilateral cooperation in the WTO and in other forums, as appropriate, to eliminate these and other unfair market distorting and protectionist practices by third countries," the statement said.
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It said the project will further strengthen Cyprus' role in the Eastern Mediterranean, in accordance with a trilateral cooperation agreement between Cyprus, Israel and Greece to transport natural gas to Europe through the East Med Pipeline project.
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Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli director of EcoPeace Middle East, a trilateral organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to deal with shared problems, said the Jordanian decision, and the expected negotiations, could provide an opportunity.
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MONTREAL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's trade chief rejected Canadian proposals for unblocking NAFTA modernization talks on Monday but pledged to seek "breakthroughs" by late February, easing concerns that Washington would soon withdraw from the trilateral pact.
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The decision will impose anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties affecting about $5.66 billion worth of lumber and comes amid increasingly acrimonious talks on renegotiating NAFTA, the trilateral trade pact between the United States, Canada and Mexico.
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The sources, with knowledge of the effort to modernize the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, said the proposal would not elaborate on possible changes being weighed by the Trump administration in the Chapter 11 of NAFTA.
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Trump would be "totally happy" if Canada were to get on board and make the deal trilateral, like the one it's replacing, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Tuesday.
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Trump unveiled the Mexico deal on Monday and threatened to slap tariffs on Canadian-made cars if Canada did not join the revamp of the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which Trump has long criticized.
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Related: North Korea Fires Another Missile, Just as Obama Prepares for Trilateral Meeting Armstrong noted that he had personally encountered North Korean workers in Cambodia and Mongolia, where they were working in restaurants and at construction sites.
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Why it matters: The 2 leaders were summoned to a trilateral meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at his residence in Jerusalem in an attempt to break the political deadlock and start negotiations on forming a unity government.
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Trump criticized Mexico and Canada for months, claiming they took advantage of U.S. companies through trade, but the three countries reached a new trilateral deal at the end of September to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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"We, you and Turkey have been able in the past five days to help evacuate innocent civilians from Aleppo as well as (facilitate) the terrorist groups to leave the city," Zarif told Lavrov ahead of the trilateral talks.
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Trump said on Monday that Canada and Mexico could avoid being caught in his planned hefty tariffs on steel and aluminum imports if they ceded ground to Washington in trilateral talks on a new North American trade deal.
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Also, the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun said on Wednesday Japan, the United States and South Korea are in final stages of talks to hold a trilateral summit on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.
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He predicted that the Dow Jones Industrial Average would be quickly pushed above the 30,000-point mark if the U.S. passes the new trilateral trade deal with Canada and Mexico, and if the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates.
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The rules of origin, which stipulate that products must meet minimum NAFTA-wide content requirements to be tariff-free, are seen as a sensitive area of discussion once negotiations to revamp the trilateral treaty kick off in August.
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Only a trilateral trade pact would be eligible for "fast-track," 51-vote Senate approval, while a bilateral deal would need 60 votes and that would require some support for the deal from potentially skeptical Democrats, they said.
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Market sentiment was lifted by a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rescuing a $1.2 trillion a year open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian manufacturers want their access to the U.S. market protected at all costs if Canada renegotiates the NAFTA trade deal with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, even if that means losing the trilateral partnership with Mexico.
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During a visit to Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, Abe urged Trump to set up a trilateral coordination group for the US, South Korea and Japan to coordinate preparations for the summit and develop a unified position.
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On Saturday Trump said there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the talks to revamp NAFTA or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact.
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While I understand the necessity for trilateral economic ties and security cooperation, the word "courage" is only rightly applied to the victims who were brutalized by Japanese Imperial Forces – not to the perpetrators and perpetuators of the crime.
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The Kremlin told CNBC that the meeting was at Rouhani's invitation and was the second time that the presidents had met, their last get together being in August 2016 when a trilateral summit was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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The national security of the Republic of Korea and strengthening the U.S.-led trilateral quasi-alliance involving Japan seem lower priorities for Moon than fanning the flames of anti-Japanese sentiment for political gain and placating North Korea.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Pakistan needs to join other nations in fighting terrorism, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged on Tuesday, saying Islamabad should not feel isolated by planned trilateral talks between the United States, India and Afghanistan.
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Ayer, apenas horas antes de la fecha límite para un acuerdo, los negociadores canadienses y estadounidenses alcanzaron un pacto para que el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte continúe siendo trilateral [en inglés], junto con México.
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Later on Sunday, Moon informed Russian President Vladimir Putin of the summit's outcome in a separate call, and proposed a joint study on trilateral cooperation over rail, gas and power infrastructure involving North Korea, the Blue House said.
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In fact, recent dialogues about the need to expedite the approval of this trilateral agreement, which was ratified by Mexico on June 19, 2019, have focused on the benefits the trade deal would bring various U.S. industrial sectors.
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Under the trilateral trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada, rules of origin can specify that products must meet minimum regional (NAFTA-wide) content requirements to be tariff-free, but there are no national content requirements.
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Asked on local television whether it was more likely the $1.2 trillion trilateral trade pact would survive or die, Mexico's Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray said there was cause for optimism, though Mexico should be prepared for all eventualities.
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The trilateral meeting in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu comes amid demands by Pyongyang for sanctions relief by the end of the year and threats that it may take unspecified actions if that relief is not forthcoming.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration's top trade officials hope to keep the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral deal in negotiations with Canada and Mexico to revamp the 23-year-old pact, senators said on Tuesday.
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Speaking in Mexico City, Thomas Donohue, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's president and chief executive, listed several U.S. proposals that he said would undermine $1 trillion in annual trilateral trade, including a "sunset clause" to force regular negotiations.
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YOKOHAMA, Japan, May 5 (Reuters) - Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie was absent from a trilateral meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on Friday due to "important policy issues" in his country, Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said.
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China already agreed to suspend its sanctions against South Korea in exchange for a commitment that Seoul will not deploy additional THAAD launchers, participate in a U.S. regional missile defense, or enter into a trilateral defense alliance with Japan.
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Despite some contentious issues still on the table, the increasingly positive tone contrasted with U.S. President Donald Trump's harsh criticism of Canada in recent weeks, raising hopes that the year-long talks will conclude soon with a trilateral agreement.
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Lighthizer was expected to focus mainly about the trilateral trade deal to replace NAFTA, called the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, or USMCA, which was agreed upon by the three allied nations but has yet to make it through Congress.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Senior defense officials from the United States, South Korea and Japan held trilateral talks and urged North Korea to walk away from its "destructive and reckless path" of weapons development, the U.S. military said in a statement.
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Finance leaders of Japan, China and South Korea agreed to resist all forms of protectionism in a trilateral meeting on Friday, taking a stronger stand than G20 major economies against the protectionist policies advocated by U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The 1994 accord underpins much of the more than $1 trillion in annual trilateral trade, and Trump's repeated threats to dump NAFTA if he cannot rework it in the United States' favor have spooked investors in Mexico in particular.
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Mexican Economy Minister Guajardo Ildefonso earlier told the conference that the bulk of the NAFTA talks would have to be carried out on a trilateral basis to give investors confidence that the same set of investment rules applied everywhere.
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On top of trilateral talks in Tokyo between Japan, South Korea and the US taking place Tuesday, US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke over the phone Monday night, the second time in as many weeks.
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Zeman claimed he would make a state visit to the White House, and started to organize a business and political delegation to join him as he established a trilateral axis between three "like-minded" leaders: himself, Putin and Trump.
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Ideally, the next step would be the actual integration of the Singapore Agreement and the Panmunjom Declaration by beginning a trilateral negotiation involving US, South Korea and North Korea, to create a durable system of denuclearization and economic exchange.
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However, multiple deadlines have already been broken during the drawn-out attempt to renegotiate the trilateral deal since Trump demanded it be re-worked on the grounds that the 1994 NAFTA pact caused the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A pact between the United States and Canada to rescue the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico drove up global stock markets and the Canadian dollar on Monday, while weighing on safe-haven assets.
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But hours after Canada joined an agreement between Mexico and the United States to revamp the 24-year-old trade deal, the president-elect and his aides on Monday hailed the last-minute negotiations that salvaged the trilateral accord.
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The United States and Canada forged a last-minute deal on Sunday to salvage a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century in operation.
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While Mr. Pompeo was in Pyongyang on Wednesday, Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, hosted President Moon Jae-in of South Korea and China's premier, Li Keqiang, in Tokyo for their first trilateral summit in two-and-a-half years.
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Officials from both the US and Canadian negotiating teams confirmed Friday that they will continue working towards a trilateral deal, and that good progress has been made over the past year at revamping the 24-year-old trade deal.
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His bond with Jimmy Carter developed through the Trilateral Commission, the group David Rockefeller created in 1973 as a forum for political and business leaders from North America, Western Europe and Japan to consider the challenges facing industrialized countries.
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"This is a great move forward for trade," Mnuchin told CNBC's "Squawk Box, " a day after the White House announced that it had reached an agreement with Mexico that essentially would rewrite the trilateral trade pact ratified in 1994.
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"Business Roundtable urges the administration to expand trade and investment – not introduce new barriers and uncertainties – as it negotiates with China and works to deliver a modern, trilateral NAFTA for the American people," BRT Chief Executive Joshua Bolten said.
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China, which is estimated to have far fewer nuclear weapons than the United States and Russia, has rejected trilateral talks, and some analysts view the U.S. stance as a poison pill designed to kill off the New START treaty.
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On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump said there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the trade talks or he would terminate the trilateral pact altogether.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The designated foreign minister of Mexico's incoming government welcomed on Monday a deal between the United States and Mexico to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), saying Canada's participation in trilateral talks was vital.
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"We see the agreement announced today as positive progress ... in the coming days we will continue in trilateral negotiations with Canada, which is vital to be able to renew the (trade) pact," said Marcelo Ebrard, the future foreign minister.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Wednesday that he had spoken with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on the telephone and was "hopeful" Canada could soon hold trilateral NAFTA talks with the United States and Mexico.
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"I heard he could not attend the meeting because he had to deal with important policy issues," Aso told reporters after the trilateral meeting, which was held on the sidelines of Asian Development Bank's annual gathering in Yokohama, eastern Japan.
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Both Democrats and Republicans supported a trilateral agreement with Canada, and so far, Democrats have been receptive to USMCA — especially because of its labor protections, which have been issues that Democrats, more so than Republicans, have been agitating for with NAFTA.
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"We would like the government of the United States and the government of Canada to come to an agreement so the treaty can be trilateral, as it was originally signed," said Lopez Obrador, a veteran leftist who takes office in December.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the trade negotiations or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether.
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The defense ministers of France, Germany and Spain signed an accord launching a trilateral framework of cooperation at the Paris Airshow, sat in front of a mock-up of the jet and with French President Emmanuel Macron applauding behind them.
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As we build on the momentum of President Trump And Chairman Kim Jong-un&aposs historic summit, the United States, the Republic of Korea and Japan continue to strengthen our trilateral cooperation to achieve the goals set out in Singapore.
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He also reiterated that China had no interest in taking part in any trilateral talks with the United States and Russia to come to new terms on such weapons, arguing that most of China's missiles could not reach the U.S. heartland.
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WASHINGTON/OTTAWA (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday warned the Trump administration that NAFTA should be maintained as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada and not just as a U.S.-Mexico arrangement.
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Pena Nieto said on Twitter he hoped a trilateral accord could be reached this week after officials said the United States and Mexico had sealed an agreement on their bilateral issues in the renegotiation of the 24-year-old trade pact.
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On Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump said there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the trade talks or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether.
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"Regardless of the eventual winner, from one administration to the next, there are changes, and there are shifts, but we will engage ... in a positive, thoughtful collaborative way that understands the importance of the North American trilateral relationship," he said.
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The metals tariffs were a major irritant for Canada and Mexico and had caused them to halt progress toward ratification the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trilateral trade deal to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The defense ministers of France, Germany and Spain signed an accord launching a trilateral framework of cooperation at the Paris Airshow, sat in front of a mock-up of the jet and with French President Emmanuel Macron applauding behind them.
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The United States and Canada forged a deal on Sunday to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $24 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse.
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A senior White House official said in a conference call with reporters that the U.S. plans to stress to Russia during its trilateral national security advisers summit in Jerusalem this month that Iranian forces and their proxies have to leave Syria.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. mediator for Syria said on Thursday he would hold talks with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov in Geneva on Monday, and that the United States had declined to take part in any trilateral meeting for now.
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The United States and Canada forged a last-minute deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a $2.73 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century in operation.
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Finally, it remains uncertain whether Canada will join the recent U.S.-Mexico trade agreement and thus strengthen NAFTA, or whether the trilateral trade pact will come undone and lead to even greater trade tensions with America's nearest neighbor and ally.
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But the flights were also meant "as a demonstration of the strength of the bilateral alliances between the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea and reflect broadening trilateral cooperation to defend against common regional threats," according to Lt. Col.
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"We oppose any country's attempt to make an issue out of China on arms control and will not participate in any negotiation for a trilateral nuclear disarmament agreement," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said during a press briefing in May.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan has approached China and South Korea about holding a trilateral summit in Tokyo in February aimed at deepening cooperation on such issues as a free trade deal, the environment and counter-terrorism, Kyodo news agency reported on Saturday.
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Former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, a driving force behind the 1994 trilateral deal with the United States and Mexico, said the talks would be tough, especially when it came to rules of origin and mechanisms to settle investor disputes.
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The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump said Canada must sign onto the text of the updated North American Free Trade Agreement by midnight EDT on Sunday (0400 GMT Monday) or face exclusion from the trilateral pact, which includes Mexico.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the talks to revamp NAFTA or he would terminate the trilateral pact altogether.
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U.S. and Canadian negotiators on Sunday reached a tentative trade deal, following an earlier deal between the United States and Mexico, that preserves a trilateral pact between the three North American countries, newly named the United-States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
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Trump repeated his claim on Friday that NAFTA had allowed Canada and Mexico to take advantage of the U.S. He also appeared to call into question whether the U.S. should enter into another trilateral trade pact with the two countries.
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Trump, who takes office in January, says he will either tear up or push to renegotiate the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, under which Canada and Mexico both send the vast majority of their exports to the United States.
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Putin is deftly warming Russian ties with South Korea, as evinced by Republic of Korea (ROK) President Moon Jae-in's trip to Russia in June, during which Moon stressed trilateral cooperation between Russia and the Koreas in economic and security spaces.
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"China opposes any country talking out of turn about China on the issue of arms control, and will not take part in any trilateral negotiations on a nuclear disarmament agreement," Geng said when asked about Trump's comments, according to Reuters.
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The U.S. and Canada forged a last-minute deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century in operation.
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The accord was concluded in the Belarus capital Minsk following talks in the trilateral group, whose other members are Russia and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a European security body tasked with monitoring a 2015 ceasefire agreement.
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WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico on Friday said the U.S. Trump administration and Canada were making serious efforts to resolve trade policy differences after days of bickering, raising hopes of saving the North American Free Trade Agreement as a trilateral pact.
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In addition, the president is hell-bent on launching a trade war with Mexico, constantly threatening to pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement at a time when trilateral trade among the U.S., Canada and Mexico tops $1 trillion.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that the United States would launch trilateral talks with India and Afghanistan at next month's United Nations meetings in New York after strategy talks in the Indian capital New Delhi.
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Lopez Obrador responded he would be "open to the possibility" in the absence of a trilateral agreement that also included Canada, said Hector Vasconcelos, a foreign policy advisor to Lopez Obrador's campaign who listened to the call on July 2.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto said on Twitter on Monday that he will speak with U.S. President Donald Trump shortly on advances made in the renegotiation of the NAFTA trade deal so that Canada can rejoin trilateral talks.
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What might prove damning enough for America's Afghan policy is that the trilateral meeting in Beijing didn't just discuss diplomacy and infrastructure development; counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan — once considered to be the sole prerogative of the United States — were discussed, too.
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The United States and Canada forged a last-minute deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century in operation.
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"Even if some elements of agreement are negotiated bilaterally, my expectation is ultimately a trilateral agreement that meets the high standards of Trade Promotion Authority and gains the support of Congress," said Senate Finance chair Orrin Hatch earlier this month.
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Robert Lighthizer, the United States trade representative, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland of Canada and Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo of Mexico were expected to kick off trilateral talks on some of the pact's thorniest issues over dinner in Washington on Thursday night.
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United States The United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
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The United States and Canada forged a last-minute deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $23 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
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Proponents of a trilateral New START are seeking the resumption of a costly and dangerous open-ended arms race, which will benefit no one but the defense contractors lucky enough to find themselves involved in the production of new nuclear weapons.
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Last month, however, Mexican and Canadian officials said they wanted to work toward a trilateral deal, and were not interested in bilateral agreements with the U.S. Kudlow confirmed on Thursday that the U.S. and China will resume trade talks this month.
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The defence ministers of France, Germany and Spain signed an accord launching a trilateral framework of cooperation at the Paris Airshow, sat in front of a mock-up of the jet and with French President Emmanuel Macron applauding behind them.
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She appeared on camera in a video published by the White House giving a readout of a trilateral meeting between the President, Indian President Narendra Modi and Abe, a responsibility traditionally carried out by a national security staffer in a written statement.
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Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland and Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo struck a positive note after a second day of meetings with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to revamp the 24-year-old accord, which underpins some $1.2 trillion in annual trilateral trade.
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Because the nature of the regional challenges are only expected to get more difficult with time, Mattis should lay down clarity on expectations that the Department of Defense hopes for these two important allies to continue strengthening this crucial trilateral security relationship.
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CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that Trump is considering visiting the DMZ after the G-20 summit and to clarify that there are no plans for a trilateral meeting between Trump, Moon and Kim, according to a South Korean official.
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Morneau said that he sensed "optimism" from Mnuchin about moving forward on NAFTA, and that Mnuchin had assured him that the administration was committed to a trilateral deal despite Trump's suggestion that the United States could move forward with separate bilateral deals.
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Later Monday, India also signed a trilateral agreement with Iran and Afghanistan to develop a transport and transit corridor between the three countries through Chabahar, which Modi said would allow for the unhindered flow of commerce, capital and technology through the region.
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Both Democrats and Republicans supported a trilateral agreement that included Mexico and Canada, but Democrats have begun agitating against the agreement, with the primary gripe being that it doesn't do enough to protect American workers and that the improved labor provisions lack teeth.
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The Trilateral Commission, a group Rockefeller founded in 19413 to foster relations between North America, Japan and Western Europe, came to be a regular target of the far-right and conspiracy theorists who said it was trying to create a one-world government.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average could rise above 30,000 if the Federal Reserve were to cut interest rates and the new trilateral trade deal with Mexico and Canada were to pass Congress, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro told CNBC on Tuesday.
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday praised Canada's entry into a reworked NAFTA pact with the United States and Mexico after the two countries forged a last-minute agreement to salvage the trilateral trade accord, delivering a key win for the U.S. president.
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Following a United States-Mexico agreement Monday to overhaul the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), focus shifted to Canada, with its top trade negotiator joining her Mexican and U.S. counterparts in Washington in a bid to remain in the trilateral pact.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and warned Congress not to meddle with the talks to revamp NAFTA or he would terminate the trilateral pact altogether.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canada is not making concessions needed to reach a deal with the United States for a trilateral NAFTA pact and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Dow and S&P 500 began the fourth quarter on a positive note on Monday, after a last-minute deal to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact helped ease trade worries, although major indexes finished off their session highs.
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"The Trilateral Maritime Patrol Indomalphi is a concrete step taken by the three countries ... in maintaining stability in the region in the face of non-traditional real threats such as piracy, kidnapping, terrorism and other transnational crimes in regional waters," the statement said.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Canadian and Mexican officials insisted on Wednesday that the North American Free Trade Agreement remain a trilateral pact and reiterated their opposition to U.S. calls for a so-called "sunset clause" that could end the deal after five years.
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Trade tariffs, he said, have not had much effect on the economy so far, and he said he was happy that the administration had reached a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada, because the current trilateral deal has "absolutely" helped the U.S. economy.
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Chinese Finance Minister Xiao Jie, who missed a trilateral meeting with his Japanese and South Korean counterparts on Friday for an emergency domestic meeting, had flown in for the talks with Aso, seeking to dispel speculation his absence had any diplomatic implications.
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"In the next 48 hours we will know if we are going to get to a trilateral text or if we are going to have to put forward the text of the bilateral agreement," Guajardo said in televised remarks to the Mexican Senate.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Investors are raising bets for as many as four additional interest rate increases from the Bank of Canada by the end of 2019 after a deal to save the trilateral NAFTA trade pact reduced uncertainty for Canada's trade-dependent economy.
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" Speaking at a trilateral meeting with Israel and Russia in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, National Security Adviser John Bolton said Trump was open to fresh talks about Iran's nuclear ambitions and "all that Iran needs to do is walk through that open door.
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There is still much work and innovation to be done, but already several projects have been undertaken, such as the implementation of automated kiosks, pre-screening individuals and the creation of Trusted Traveler programs, of which a trilateral agreement is currently being outlined.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said he will visit Kiev on Friday to discuss energy reforms and lay the groundwork for trilateral talks with Ukraine and Russia that he hopes will help ensure uninterrupted gas supplies in the winter.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Canada's top trade negotiator joins her Mexican and U.S. counterparts in Washington on Tuesday in a bid to remain part of a trilateral North American trade pact, as U.S. officials expressed optimism a deal could be reached this week.
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ASTANA, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Iran, Russia and Turkey will establish a trilateral mechanism to observe and ensure full compliance with the ceasefire in Syria, prevent any provocations and determine exactly how the ceasefire will work, the three nations said in a joint statement.
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According to the Canadian news outlet CBC, the agreement may include at least a dozen chapters that have been agreed to by all three NAFTA partners — Canada, the US, and Mexico — which would hint that this is a trilateral agreement in-progress.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday there was no need to keep Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement and warned Congress not to meddle with the trade negotiations or he would terminate the trilateral trade pact altogether.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday warned the Trump administration that the NAFTA trade agreement should be maintained as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada and not just a U.S.-Mexico arrangement.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The United States and Mexico abruptly canceled plans to publish NAFTA texts on Friday, sources said, as signs of renewed efforts by Canada and Washington to settle differences raised hopes a breakthrough could be made to keep the deal trilateral.
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ANGELA MERKEL returns from last night's European Council summit with a European agreement on new immigration controls and a trilateral arrangement between Germany, Greece and Spain to help curb secondary immigration to her country (see here for a full overview by my colleague in Brussels).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minster Chrystia Freeland said on Wednesday she looked forward to "constructive" discussions with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as the two resumed talks to try to resolve trade differences and agree on trilateral updates to the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Admiral Harry Harris, the top U.S. commander in Asia-Pacific, on Tuesday said continued missile launches by North Korea emphasize the importance of the alliance between Japan and the United States, as well as the trilateral cooperation of Washington, Tokyo and Seoul.
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Yet the assassination did not stop the trilateral meeting from going forward as planned, and in fact the three parties — Iran, Russia, and Turkey — were even able to agree on a "joint declaration" to find a solution in Syria as a result of that meeting.
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ET. Both currencies have been on investors' radar since Trump said in October he would renegotiate the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the U.S., Canada and Mexico — an event that could have a negative impact on the economies of the latter two.
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Protected in its cocoon, this style of thinking — the "paranoid style," the historian Richard Hofstadter memorably called it — was carried intact into modern times, with the nexus of evil moving to the Soviet Union, the Trilateral Commission and other suspected agents of One World Government.
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With U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly threatening to terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a deal that underpins $1.2 trillion in trilateral trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, Pena Nieto's government has stepped up efforts to open up new trade channels.
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It was a subject of much concern at the Trilateral Commission, a kind of Rotary Club for members of the international power elite that Brzezinski had co-founded in 2000 with David Rockefeller, head of Chase Manhattan and grandson of the famous robber baron.
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The impasse led German Chancellor Angela Merkel to say Sunday that bilateral and trilateral agreements between countries could be necessary if the wider summit on Thursday also fails to find a consensus on how to deal with what she said was a joint responsibility.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 14 (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Friday warned the Trump administration that the NAFTA trade agreement should be maintained as a trilateral pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada and not just a U.S.-Mexico arrangement.
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The NAFTA text, either bilateral or trilateral, is due by late Sunday night to meet U.S. congressional notification requirements to allow U.S. President Donald Trump and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto to sign the pact before Lopez Obrador takes office on Dec. 1.
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S. issues -experts SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - South Korea is set to let lapse an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan on Saturday amid a bitter feud over history and trade, defying mounting U.S. pressure to maintain a key element of their trilateral security cooperation.
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Other nondairy matters continue to impede the chances for a trilateral deal, including a disagreement over a culture exemption to Nafta that makes it hard for American media companies to buy Canadian ones, and issues around potential future tariffs on cars and car parts.
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The result of two days of contentious negotiations in the remote Kazakhstan capital Astana have resulted in the promise by Russia, Iran, and Turkey to establish a trilateral commission to monitor and enforce the current cease-fire in Syria, which went into effect last month.
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WASHINGTON — A day after President Trump threatened to exclude Canada from a revised North American Free Trade Agreement, top Canadian officials raced to Washington and said they were moving "full steam ahead" to try to reach a compromise that could save the trilateral pact.
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The Trump administration is expected to send Congress text of a new Nafta on Friday that does not include Canada, according to congressional aides and others familiar with the discussions, raising doubts about the ability to keep the 25-year-old trilateral pact intact.
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Just days before Trump's arrival, China and South Korea resolved an increasingly contentious dispute, China ended trade restrictions, and South Korea agreed not to deploy more THAAD missile defense systems, or join with Japan and America in trilateral missile defense cooperation or a defense alliance.
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The reported sovereign wealth fund proposal comes after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week announced a $113 million initiative in technology, energy and infrastructure in Asia and a trilateral push by the United States, Australia and Japan to invest in regional infrastructure projects.
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"During this trilateral summit, the governments of Canada, the United States and Mexico, we have reaffirmed our decision to work together with a vision, with resolve to advance economic integration in North America," Peña Nieto said at the North American Leaders' Summit in Ottawa, Canada.
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The Chinese delegation was represented by its deputy finance minister and a senior official from the Chinese central bank at the trilateral summit where finance officials from the three countries met and issued a resolve to resist protectionism, according to a Japanese Ministry of Finance official.
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"(NAFTA) is a tripartite agreement, we'd like to keep it that way ... I am still fully confident we are going to end up with a trilateral deal and not two separate bilateral deals," he told a televised news conference in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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A South Korean Blue House official told CNN that there are no plans for Trump to hold a trilateral meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to the Korean Peninsula, which will be Saturday and Sunday.
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Boy, it's hard to fight, you can't just fight this one back response at a time- Not even knowing about it- Andrea Mitchell: Let me just say that I was two or three weeks ago out at Facebook and at Stanford for a trilateral commission meeting, okay.
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TRADE DEAL VOTE The metals tariffs were a major irritant for Canada and Mexico and had caused them to largely refuse to move forward with ratification the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the trilateral trade deal to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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The trilateral talks between America, the EU and Japan are meant as an incubator for rules that could be taken to China; those between the EU and China are designed to be a sounding-board for those ideas and to prepare the ground for a proper negotiation.
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Having withstood two world wars and a series of conflicts by the United States' side, Canada is a key trading partner to 36 states — not to mention its participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement, a trilateral pact now being renegotiated by the Trump administration.
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"In addition to action in the Security Council, both the U.S. and Japan, together with the Republic of Korea, will be looking at unilateral measures, as well as bilateral measures, as well as possible trilateral cooperation," he said, referring to South Korea by its official name.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration believes that it will be in compliance with congressional "fast-track" trade negotiating authority whether it pursues a bilateral trade deal with Mexico or the trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement that also includes Canada, a senior administration official said on Friday.
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It's a slightly more careful version of a similar argument he's used before in press conferences and on Twitter: that Mexico will end up paying for the wall through the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement), the trilateral trade deal that's an updated version of NAFTA.
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Trump, a Republican, still faces opposition from some members of his party in Congress who favor a trilateral agreement, along with the risk that Republicans could suffer defeats in the upcoming mid-term elections on November 6 and lose their majority in the U.S. House or Senate.
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Mexico and Canada have clashed with the United States over an update of the trilateral trade accord since Trump's team demanded tougher regional content rules for the auto industry and proposed a clause that would kill the agreement if it was not renegotiated after five years.
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S. issues -experts By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL, Nov 22 (Reuters) - South Korea is set to let lapse an intelligence-sharing pact with Japan on Saturday amid a bitter feud over history and trade, defying mounting U.S. pressure to maintain a key element of their trilateral security cooperation.
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Senior administration officials also made clear on a call with reporters Monday afternoon that they were still pursuing a revised NAFTA trade agreement, though they maintained the possibility of a bilateral deal between the US and Mexico if a trilateral deal with Canada cannot be reached.
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NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Canada is failing to make concessions needed to reach a deal with the United States for a trilateral NAFTA pact, and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said on Tuesday.
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"Safeguarding the stability and peace of the Korean Peninsula and pushing for a political solution to the Korean Peninsula issue are in the interests of China, Japan and South Korea," Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Luo Zhaohui told reporters on Thursday at a briefing on the trilateral meetings.
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South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the sidelines of a trilateral summit with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in the Chinese city of Chengdu, with tension over stalled denuclearisation talks between North Korea and the United States the main issue.
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Looking at the latest trade and trans-border direct investments in Northeast Asia, one may be surprised to read serious concerns expressed last week by Chinese, Japanese and South Korean leaders about their trilateral relations on the sidelines of the G-220 summit in Hamburg, Germany.
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What to watch: At the end of the 2.5 hour meeting, Gantz and Netanyahu issued a joint statement saying that the negotiation teams of Blue and White and the Likud will meet tomorrow, and that another trilateral meeting with President Rivlin will be held on Wednesday.
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Despite some contentious issues still on the table, the increasingly positive tone contrasted with U.S. President Donald Trump's harsh criticism of Canada in recent weeks, raising hopes the year-long talks to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) will conclude soon with a trilateral deal.
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Meanwhile, the United States and Canada forged a last-gasp deal on Sunday to salvage the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a trilateral pact with Mexico, rescuing a three-country, $1.2 trillion open-trade zone that had been about to collapse after nearly a quarter century.
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During a trilateral summit in Jerusalem last month, the U.S. and Israel told Russia that any deal on the future of Syria must include an Iranian military withdrawal not just from that country but also from Lebanon and Iraq, U.S. officials who were involved in the discussions tell me.
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The U.S. using Taiwan as a card is a new factor in the dynamic of the trilateral relationship that "really did not exist" before President Donald Trump came into power, said Bonnie Glaser, senior advisor for Asia at Washington-based think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue said on Wednesday that the Trump administration could still avoid a full-blown global trade war that erodes business confidence if it seals a trilateral NAFTA trade deal and makes progress on European trade issues in the coming weeks.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo said on Friday that the United States and Canada are making a serious attempt to reach a deal on the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying that within 48 hours it would become clear if the deal would remain trilateral.
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While farmers welcomed the administration's progress on North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations, a trilateral deal with the United States, Canada and Mexico, as well as access to new markets, is what we really need if we are going to inject some certainty back into the farm economy.
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Officials described the dinner as one between close allies and said no broader message was being sent by not inviting Xi. "This was a trilateral dinner between three allies who share common interests working together to address the North Korea threat," said Michael Anton, National Security Council spokesman.
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"Bolton has a long record of support for Taiwan, including changes to the traditional approaches to the trilateral U.S.-China-Taiwan relations, so it is no surprise that we are seeing something different by way of a U.S. response to China's actions that reduce Taiwan's international space," he said.
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After four days of marathon negotiations between Canadian and American officials failed to produce an agreement, the White House told Congress that it would enter into a revised trade deal with Mexico and that it was up to Canada to decide whether to remain in the trilateral Nafta pact.
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The metals tariffs were a major irritant for Canada and Mexico and had caused them to halt progress toward ratification of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trilateral trade deal signed last year which will replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto reiterated he wanted Canada to return to talks with Mexico and the United States in order to reach a trilateral deal in the revamp of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) after he talked with U.S. President Donald Trump by telephone.
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The United States struck deals on May 17 to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada and Mexico, removing a major obstacle to legislative approval of the new U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), the trilateral trade deal to replace the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
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"While China has an interest in being seen as a promoter of free trade and maintaining good trilateral relations, the possibility for Chinese companies to benefit from a Japan-South Korea decoupling will limit Beijing's interest in becoming too involved in the dispute," Broderick said in a note on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, the United States and Canada reached a deal on Sunday to salvage NAFTA as a trilateral pact with Mexico, beating a midnight deadline with agreements to substantially boost American access to Canada's dairy market and protect Canada from possible U.S. auto tariffs, sources with direct knowledge of the talks said.
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Speaking to reporters after leaving a Senate Finance Committee meeting with new U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Grassley, a Republican, said: "It sounds to me like it's going to be trilateral unless there's problems that come up with that sort of machinery, then of course they would do it bilaterally."
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The White House's official Twitter account posted a video of the first daughter awkwardly providing the official readout of President Trump's trilateral meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo; she also sat next to her father during a photo of world leaders at the G20.
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Under Mr. Modi, India's navy has embarked on the creation of a web of bilateral and trilateral agreements, which serve the same purpose but are less likely to be "caricatured" by China as a containment strategy, said Rory Medcalf, the head of the National Security College at the Australian National University.
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Kimball said it may be a "suicide mission" if Trump wants Billingslea to deliver progress on a trilateral arms agreement, especially given that the Chinese have said multiple times that they're not interested in negotiations while there's such a disparity in the arsenal sizes between them and the US and Russia.
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Abe is hoping that the 56-year-old Kono, who is known for his close ties with the United States and positive relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, will strengthen Japan's role in trilateral security cooperation between Tokyo, Washington and Seoul amid the ongoing dispute, the Sankei said.
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"A trilateral summit in Tokyo is an opportunity for Abe to reassert himself in fast-moving regional politics in a way that does not depend on his relationship with the U.S. president," said Mira Rapp-Hooper, a senior research scholar at Yale Law School who writes about security in Asia.
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Cho also met U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris in Seoul on Wednesday and emphasised that South Korea's decision to end the intelligence-sharing arrangement with Japan was unrelated to the alliance with the United States and that it would continue to maintain trilateral cooperation, the foreign ministry said in a statement.
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"A lot of things are happening on trade and I'll be announcing pretty much what happened here and also with other meetings, including with China, South Korea and lots of other places," Trump said during a trilateral meeting here with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
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These concerns were exacerbated when, after the April summit between the Koreas, the North signed an agreement to engage in either trilateral or quadrilateral talks—phrasing that made it seem like the North and South and US would talk for sure, but China might be on the outside looking in.
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White House trade advisor Peter Navarro told CNBC on Tuesday that the Dow Jones Industrial Average could rise above 30,000 if the Federal Reserve were to cut interest rates — the market fully expects a rate cut later this month — and the new trilateral trade deal with Mexico and Canada were to pass Congress.
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Steinmeier said the trilateral group had played a key role in achieving European integration, and could now help to answer the serious questions thrown up by Britain's June 23 vote to leave the EU. "Britain's decision to leave the EU is the biggest challenge we face," Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski told reporters.
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Por Paulina Chavira En la encuesta en Twitter que publicó hace dos semanas el presidente electo de México, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, la sigla "T-MEC" fue la más votada para nombrar al tratado trilateral entre México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, que remplaza al Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN).
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"Because of the massive amount of movement of goods between the three countries and the integration of operations which make manufacturing in our country more competitive, it is imperative that a trilateral agreement be inked," Jay Timmons, the president and chief executive of the National Association of Manufacturers, said in a statement.
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After fighters from Malaysia and Indonesia joined the Islamic State-backed coalition that seized Marawi, those two countries joined the Philippines for the first time to conduct trilateral maritime and air patrols in the Sulu Sea — despite a dispute between the Philippines and Malaysia over Sabah, a Malaysian state that borders that sea.
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"The Trilateral Contact Group, with participation of representatives of certain areas of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine, reached an agreement on a mutual release and exchange of conflict-related detainees by the end of the year," Ambassador Martin Sajdik, the OSCE's Special Representative to Ukraine, was cited by the organization as saying.
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Last year, Russia signed a trilateral statement with China and North Korea advocating for limited relief from U.N. sanctions for Pyongyang, and following next week's apparent summit, Putin is expected to advocate for the need for a partial easing of sanctions against North Korea, according to the diplomats who spoke to Izvestia.
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Trade in dairy and softwood lumber has emerged as a major irritant between Canada and the United States in recent weeks, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is under pressure to protect Canadian jobs as U.S. President Donald Trump forces the renegotiation of NAFTA, the trilateral free trade agreement with Mexico, Canada and the United States.
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Russia has been seeking to build a new pipeline, Nord Stream-2, directly to Germany, which would bypass Ukraine, currently the transit route for roughly half of the gas Russia supplies to the EU. Gazprom was not immediately available for comment, while a European Commission spokeswoman reiterated the Commission stood ready to facilitate trilateral talks.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Monday that the United States and Mexico had reached an accord to revise key portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and would finalize it within days, suggesting he was ready to jettison Canada from the trilateral trade pact if the country did not get on board quickly.
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Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, a dear friend of Mr. Bush's, recalled during his eulogy that it was the 41st president who had been responsible for beginning to negotiate Nafta, the trilateral trade agreement with Mexico and Canada that Mr. Trump has harshly denounced and from which he recently threatened to withdraw.
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The accepted premise of this trilateral solution is that Iran and Russia are content that the regime has full access to the coast and a clear channel all the way to the Iraqi capital Baghdad -- through which Tehran can slowly harass Israel and dominate the region, and Moscow can retain an airbase on the Mediterranean.
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Related: North Korea Is Experimenting with a Different Kind of Rocket Fuel for Better Missiles "This meeting will be an opportunity for the three leaders to discuss common responses to the threat posed by North Korea and to advance areas of trilateral security cooperation in the region and globally," the White House said in a statement.
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"The United States, Japan and Australia have formed a trilateral partnership to mobilize investment in projects that drive economic growth, create opportunities, and foster a free, open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp and the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation said in a statement.
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Abe also welcomed the impending visit to Japan of China's Premier Li Keqiang to (a) set up a trilateral free trade area with China and South Korea, (b) conclude the agreement on an East Asian Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, (c) join China's erstwhile shunned Belt and Road infrastructure projects, (d) promote multilateral trade and (e) fight trade protectionism.
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"The United States, Japan and Australia have formed a trilateral partnership to mobilise investment in projects that drive economic growth, create opportunities, and foster a free, open, inclusive and prosperous Indo-Pacific," Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp and the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation said in a statement.
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Rome, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attends last day of trilateral forum by Italian employers' association Confindustria Rome, event to celebrate 10-year high-speed train anniversary of Italian state railways Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) with Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Paola De Micheli, FS CEO Gianfranco Battisti and Chairman Gianluigi Castelli (1800 GMT).
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He made commercially lucrative deals with despots and dictators, inspired fevered international conspiracy theories with his work for the Trilateral Commission, helped rescue New York City from bankruptcy when President Gerald Ford told it to drop dead (sort of), and gave away untold millions of dollars in support of the arts, medical research, historic preservation and other philanthropies.
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Noble helped further radicalize the community when he began to play them tapes by John Todd, a Dallas-based hellfire preacher who claimed to be a defector from the "Grand-Druid Council of 13," the innermost circle of the evil hidden hand of the world—the Illuminati, who sought to enslave humanity with the aid of demonic forces and the Trilateral Commission.
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I learned, among other things, that the Trilateral Commission and the Bilderbergs controlled George H.W. Bush's administration to advance the New World Order; that David Koresh and Randy Weaver were patriots martyred by the fascist Janet Reno's jackbooted government thugs; and that a race war was definitely coming to America—the only real question was which side the government would be on.
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Tillerson will hold a trilateral meeting Monday in Manila with his South Korean counterpart Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese counterpart Taro Kono to discuss North Korea, according to South Korea's foreign ministry "The three foreign ministers will share their assessments of situations caused by the series of provocations by North Korea and discuss necessary future countermeasures, " the ministry said in a statement.
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During the year that marks the 65th anniversary of the Armistice, South and North Korea agreed to actively pursue trilateral meetings involving the two Koreas and the United States, or quadrilateral meetings involving the two Koreas and the United States and China with a view to declaring an end to the War and establishing a permanent and solid peace regime.
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"It could be the case that our effort won't ... work but we are determined to set the conditions so that we can right this failure of decades and reset the conditions for North Korea's participation in the community of nations," Pompeo said after a trilateral meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono.
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Meanwhile, Canberra recently set up a US$1.38 billion Australian Infrastructure Financing Facility for projects in the Pacific, and it has also been proposed that the country's Export Finance and Insurance Corporation be granted more resources and power to support investment in the region — including through a new Trilateral Infrastructure Partnership between Australia, the US and Japan — to curb China's influence in domestic affairs.
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What he's saying: The big picture: Leaders from China, Japan, South Korea on Tuesday at a trilateral summit reiterated their commitment to end North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, according to AP. Go deeper: North Korea conducts satellite test for second time in less than a week Bolton knocks Trump administration for latest North Korea decision Trump suggests North Korea collapsing nuclear talks is election interference
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He'll convene a trilateral meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Thursday morning, seeking to further improve ties between the Asian leaders who have only recently reconciled after being at odds over historic grievances related to World War II. Obama will sit for talks with President Xi Jinping of China on Thursday afternoon to discuss security, climate and economic issues.
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Orrin HatchOrrin Grant HatchTrump to award racing legend Roger Penske with Presidential Medal of Freedom Trump awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to economist, former Reagan adviser Arthur Laffer Second ex-Senate staffer charged in aiding doxxing of GOP senators MORE (R-Utah), the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, urged the Trump administration in a statement to "stay the course" in NAFTA negotiations, and work on a trilateral solution with Canada and Mexico.
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Tehran has in the past blamed its regional rival Saudi Arabia for supporting Sunni militants, but this time Iran's leader pointed the finger straight at Washington and Tel Aviv: "The crime will remain as a 'dirty stain' in the black record of the main supporters of terrorism in the White House, Tel Aviv and their regional agents," Rouhani said, ahead of a trilateral meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi.
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Most Americans would view a policy that would create problems for America's diplomacy, its military and its intelligence as well as require significant budget increases as not being in the country's interest — but the Trump administration is threatening to pursue such a policy by allowing the New START treaty, which constrains U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear weapons, to expire early in 2021, so it can pursue a new trilateral U.S.-Russian-Chinese strategic arms agreement in which neither Russia nor China have expressed any interest.
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China on Monday rejected the idea of trilateral nuclear arms negotiations with the U.S. and Russia after President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE said he discussed the possibility last week in a call with Russian President Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Can we do business with Kim Jong Un?
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To the approving hoots of several dozen audience members on Sunday in a conference room at the Crowne Plaza New Orleans Airport Hotel, Mr. Stone went on to contend that his candidate was no tool of the elite power brokers at the Trilateral Commission or the Bilderberg meetings — and then he asserted paternity cover-ups within the Clinton family, declared that one group supporting Hillary Clinton was a "criminal-based money-laundering operation" and promised "devastating" revelations among hacked emails yet to be released.
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I talked recently to a scholar with distinguished service in foreign policy and he said that Council of Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission types would want Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE to be President as she is a 'path walker' and if an issue in foreign policy came up she would call them and ask them what to do.
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