Article snippet: Senate Republicans are growing frustrated with what they see as a lack of clear direction in MORE’s trade agenda, which they warn is hurting U.S. exporters. Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee vented their concerns in a recent meeting with U.S. Trade Representative MORE. GOP lawmakers, especially those from agriculture-heavy states, have two major complaints with the administration. They feel it is not listening to Congress’s feedback on negotiations with Mexico and Canada over the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trump has threatened to withdraw the U.S. from NAFTA. They’re also frustrated by what they see as a total lack of progress in negotiating the bilateral trade agreements with Pacific Rim countries that Trump promised after pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in January. They made their displeasure known during the meeting with Lighthizer, said Sen. MORE (Texas), a member of the Finance Committee and the No. 2 Republican in the Senate. “There’s a number of frustrations with their approach including — as I’ve told the ambassador before — they need Congress to ratify it under [Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)] and so they don’t seem to be paying that much attention to what members of the Senate think,” Cornyn said. TPA gives the administration authority to negotiate on trade deals. Congress, under the TPA law, has the authority to review any proposed U.S. trade agreement and decide whether it will be i... Link to the full article to read more