The U.S. and Canada are getting ready to decide on key issues as they work to strike a deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement, Canada’s foreign minister said.

 

“Our officials did some work. They prepared some issues for me and Ambassador Lighthizer to take some decisions,” Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland told reporters Thursday afternoon in Washington, as she headed to her latest meeting with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.

 

The tone is becoming increasingly optimistic as the two countries approach a U.S. deadline to reach a deal by Friday, when President Donald Trump plans to notify Congress that he’ll sign a pact to replace the 24-year-old Nafta.

 

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