What did Canada and Mexico say?
Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland responded: "Canada doesn't view trade surpluses or deficits as a primary measure of whether a trading relationship works," adding that current trade between the U.S. and Canada is "balanced and mutually beneficial."
Mexico's Economy Minister Ildefonso Guajardo, in his opening remarks, said objectives for NAFTA renegotiations should be to "have more trade" and "do no harm."
Vehicles enter the United States at the Canadian Thousand Islands Bridge Authority in Kingston, Canada, Aug. 16, 2017. The United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday kicked off the first round of renegotiations on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) amid widespread uncertainty and anxiety over the future of the decades-old trilateral trade deal. (Xinhua/Li Baodong)