Pelosi expected to announce endorsement of modified North American trade pact

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., discusses her recent visit to the UN Climate Change Conference in Madrid, Spain, during a news conference with the congressional delegation to that summit, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 6, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Posted: Dec 10, 2019 / 08:47 AM EST

Updated: Dec 10, 2019 / 09:48 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to announce her endorsement of a modified North American trade pact Tuesday morning.

That concludes a long set of negotiations and gives President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the same day Democrats are set to announce impeachment their charges against him.

Pelosi says the revamped U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is a significant improvement over the original North American Free Trade Agreement. Pelosi and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., have scheduled a news conference Tuesday morning.

In Mexico City, Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary Marcelo Ebrard said that there would be a meeting of the three countries’ negotiating teams Tuesday “to announce the advances achieved” on the trade agreement.

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