Representatives from Canada, the United States, and Mexico met in Washington D.C. this week to try to make progress on less contentious chapters of NAFTA after last month’s Mexico City Round failed to resolve major differences. This weeks meeting was meant to discuss and solve technical issues within areas deemed as non-controversial between the three parties. Talks are expected to continue in late January in Montreal where negotiators will try to make progress in order to wrap up discussions by the self-imposed March deadline.