NAFTA

Many in farming community are wondering what the future holds under a Joe Biden Administration, especially when it comes to trade. Randy Russell, former USDA Undersecretary, is currently the President of the Russell Group in Arlington, VA ...

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It may have been lost in the shuffle of this year's pandemic, but the U.S., Canada and Mexico were able to update their trilateral trade agreement.The updated NAFTA now known as USMCA, and it sits well with USDA's Ted McKinney. "I'm a believer that the USMCA is very very good and it's something that can be sustained," McKinney noted ... Read More ...

Agriculture based advisory committees play a significant role of council for both the Ag Secretary, but also the U.S. trade representatives regarding trade matters. "The negotiations of the US/Mexico/Canada agreement we were in close communication with the committees and with individual members of the committees with respect to their positions on the negotiations for their various sectors,&qu

With USMCA on the books, one thing livestock producers will want to watch closely, the cooperation over keeping devastating animal diseases, like African Swine Fever, out of North America. "We are working toward trading agreements and relationships that are made easier by the fact that over our share agreement is in place," said Lisa Rochette, the Assistant Director of swine health wit

U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador met in Washington, D.C., this week to celebrate USMCA. The agreement recently became the law of the land in North America. After multiple meetings among senior officials from both nations, the U ...

What do individual states expect now that USMCA is on the books and being enforced? "One thing that's exciting about USMCA from state perspective; you know we talk about modernizing the the agreement and a lot of that focuses on digital trade aspects or biotechnology," said Max Moncaster with the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture ...

Earlier this week, NAFTA offically gave way to USMCA. And agricultural leaders are quick to point out the process was a long one. It all started really in early 2017 when President Trump characterized then 23-year-old NAFTA as a "terrible terrible trade deal ...

Wednesday was the official implementation of USMCA, the updated NAFTA trade agreement. Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse took to the floor of the U.S. House Wednesday to speak the praises of the tri-lateral trade agreement. He said USMCA will help the local agriculture community still facing the COVID-19 pandemic head on. “T ...

On Wednesday, USMCA officially replaces NAFTA as the tri-lateral trade agreement between the U.S. Canada and Mexico. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said USMCA ends decades of Canada blocking imports of U.S. wheat, dairy, and poultry, as well as deal with Mexico’s trade barriers. “T ...