How Are Trade Deals Actually Negotiated?

How are trade deals actually negotiated?

With trade agreements making headlines, three former negotiators explain how the talks unfold.

Erm, Does the White House understand how to negotiate trade deals? — alex & parker

There aren’t many delightful things that came out of Q1 2025, but one of them was the very peculiar claim that the US administration would get ninety deals done in ninety days. It’s funny because that’s not how trade negotiations work. How Trade Negotiations Work Real trade deals take years. USMCA, for instance, took nearly three to go from announcement to ratification and implementation. (Of course, the agreement is now in limbo because of the …