Mexican presidential winner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday that he expected there would be an agreement in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the coming days.
Mexico and the United States agreed last week to step up talks on revamping NAFTA in hopes of reaching a deal on major issues by August. The two countries will hold a bilateral meeting on Thursday, a spokesperson for the United States Trade Representative said Tuesday.
"In every meeting arrangement, the United States is focused on completing the best possible trade deal as quickly as we can," Emily Davis, the spokesperson, said.
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC that he hoped an agreement on NAFTA was coming "very soon."
"We hope to have an agreement in principle, clearly, very soon. That's the first priority," Mnuchin said. "I think we're making a lot of progress."
President Donald Trump has said he wanted to wait until after the November midterms in the United States are over to renegotiate the treaty.
CNBC's Kayla Tausche and Tucker Higgins contributed to this report.