Despite being billed as "Comprehensive Trade Negotiating AuthorityLegislation," H.R. 3019 is not a trade promotion authority bill. Inreality, it is designed to appeal to special interests and wouldactually inhibit the ability of the president to negotiate tradeagreements.
summit in japan, perhaps a chance to strike a deal. eric: eric and we ll certainly be seeing what develops. david, thank you. arthel: the trade standoff also playing out on the campaign trail. francesca chambers, white house correspondent for the daily mail. hi. good morning. arthel: did president trump lose props for his highly self-touted trade negotiating acumen for going after canada and mexico first on aluminum and steel or the way he handled that deal overall and now the slow-dragging trade a talks with china that are now at an impasse? well, arthel, but he still has more than a year before the general election, and that s important to remember. while democrats have more than 20 candidates right now, and they re all angling to get out in front, president trump can mostly just coast, so to speak, until that general election on this topic. is so he has a full year at least to make a deal with china, and it looks as if it could take