Economic Scene: Labor Wants to Make Nafta Its Friend. Here’s the Problem.

August 22, 2017 Eduardo Porter ECONOMIC SCENE Can Nafta be re-engineered to raise workers’ wages? Organized labor thinks so. As the United States sets out to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement with Mexico and Canada, union officials are pinning...

U.S. Begins Nafta Negotiations With Harsh Words

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM August 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — The renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is off to a rocky start. The Trump administration lectured Canada and Mexico on the failures of the current agreement at an opening news...

Trump Backed Off Putin Because ‘What Do You Do? End Up in a Fistfight?’

Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the president offered his first extended account of the meeting he held with the Russian leader last week.

Preparing for ‘Brexit,’ Britons Face Economic Pinch at Home

By PETER S. GOODMAN June 11, 2017 LONDON — Right about now, Eddie Stamton, a construction worker, would normally be making preparations to jet off to a sandy stretch of the Mediterranean for a summer holiday. Not this year. In the year since...

Mexico Agrees to Sugar Trade Deal, but U.S. Refiners Remain Unhappy

By ELISABETH MALKIN June 6, 2017 MEXICO CITY — Mexico agreed to demands from the United States to cut exports of refined sugar, striking a deal on Tuesday in a contentious trade negotiation that was closely watched as a prologue to talks on...