Auto industry sees opening to avert a NAFTA disaster

The Trump administration is insisting that 50 percent of the content of every vehicle produced in the NAFTA region come from the United States, an option that Canada and Mexico have dismissed as unworkable. (BLOOMBERG)

By:

David Lawder and David Ljunggren

January 26, 2018 05:00 AM

MONTREAL -- Auto industry officials fretting about hardline U.S. NAFTA demands with the potential to turn a globally integrated industry upside down now are hopeful that a Canadian compromise plan could avert disaster.

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