US recipe for Nafta revamp: reheat with a dash of TPP?

Washington

SOME provisions of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which President Donald Trump quit as part of his pledge to protect American workers from "bad trade deals" may still serve to shape a revised Nafta trade pact, US officials and trade experts say.

Mr Trump threatened to ditch the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement too, but eventually decided to renegotiate the pact in talks with Mexico and Canada due to begin in mid-August.

On Monday, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will offer first insights into the administration's strategy when he presents Congress its objectives for the Nafta negotiations.

Several US administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Mr Lighthizer will outline pla…