Canada is facing another USA deadline to make a deal: the end of the month. It is possible that Congress, which strongly prefers an agreement involving Canada, would allow Canada to be added to the U.S. -Mexico text at a later date.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 USA official said on Tuesday."We're certainly not going to give up", he said."If . . .

Mr. Lighthizer also suggested that Canada and Mexico can not expect swift relief on steel and aluminium tariffs, which the US imposed on its NAFTA partners in June. "If you can't have some curb on the arbitrary use of tariffs under the guise of national security, with a member of NORAD and somebody who is your closest defence partner, then I don't think it's much of an agreement".But the administration's use of provisions meant to protect industries vital to national security is controversial, and now subject to a challenge at . . .