Trump’s ambitious push for trade deals is hitting some snags

"It's going to be a long, drawn-out negotiation," said Warren Maruyama, who worked on trade deals during the George W. Bush administration as general counsel for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. "You could hope that your trading partner is stupid and will agree to a bad deal. But, for the most part, most foreign trade negotiators are quite good, and it's typically a pretty brutal head-to-head negotiation between two sophisticated countries who have been doing trade deals for decades." The increased tensions Trump has injected in recent weeks could also be adding to the complexities U.S. officials face…