MONTREAL: The US government doesn't have a clear idea of what NAFTA covers, a business body representing several big North American multinationals said on Tuesday after Washington picked a trade fight with Canada.

The Canadian American Business Council took umbrage at a comment by US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross that NAFTA wasn't "functioning properly," allegedly because Canada was exporting subsidized lumber to the US and was preventing easy access to its market by American dairy farmers.

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