Canada is not making concessions needed to reach a deal with the United States for a trilateral NAFTA pact and is running out of time before Washington proceeds with a Mexico-only agreement, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday.  The administration of President Donald Trump has recently started increasing the pressure on Canada, urging it to conclude a deal by Sept. 30 or face exclusion from a revised North American Free Trade Agreement.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said there was some "distance" between the two sides on issues such as access to Canada's dairy market and how best to settle trade disputes. "The fact is, Canada is not making concessions in areas where we think they're essential," Lighthizer said at the Concordia Summit in New York. 

This was excerpted from the 25 September 2018 edition of the CBC News.