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US will pressure Mexico to increase Mexican wages to protect American jobs, according to Bloomberg

Canada threatens to leave if Chapter 19 is removed; Trump says the US will leave if it isn't

Canada, US, and Mexico will form work teams to oversee drafting and revise current NAFTA chapters

MEXICO-TRADE: Quotas on Mexican sugar exports are set under the 2014 agreement that has become a source of tension between the two countries

Speaking to reporters in Washington, Videgaray said he expected formal talks on commerce to begin around the middle of 2017 and that "possible deals over trade could be reached toward the end of the year."

Trudeau has taken a low-key approach toward Trump, a Republican who campaigned on a pledge to toughen U.S. immigration policies and renegotiate the NAFTA among Canada, the United States and Mexico

About 70% of the vehicles Japanese car makers sell in the U.S. are made in the U.S., but a tax on cars exported from Japan would "clearly be a major headwind," Marcel Thieliant and Mark Williams said in a report issued Friday.

White House Press Secretary Spicer said that taxing imports from Mexico would generate US$10 billion a year and "easily pay for the wall."

The Brazilian real and the Mexican peso seesawed on Monday, the first trading day of the year, in thin trading volumes due to holidays in the U.S. and other Latin American markets

Mexican president, Enrique Peña Nieto, explained that Mexico intends to commerce with the four cardinal points, in the occasion of his closing speech of the 13th Mexican Foreign Trade Congress (COMCE) in León, Guanajuato.