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U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai spoke with officials from Mexico and Canada this week on trade issues during a meeting in Mexico City. The meeting coincided with the one year anniversary of USMCA replacing NAFTA. A statement from the USTR office said Tai spoke with her Canadian counterpart about softwood lumber, dairy, and WTO reform ...

Last week, Japan’s Upper House of Parliament ratified a partial trade agreement with the United States, which goes into effect on January 1st.  Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse said that vote was a great step forward for American Ag.   “Japan ...

President Trump plans to press key issues of importance to agriculture in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.  Trump in his third prime-time address to the nation from the U.S. House chamber will call on Congress to work with him on several fronts: infrastructure, lowering health care costs, immigration reform, ratifying the USMCA, and confronting China on unfair trade practices.  However,

Language against trade talks with China in the USMCA is not surprising, according to a Chinese Editorial.  The South China Morning Post, an English language newspaper based in China, says the policy is perhaps the worst feature of the USMCA for Beijing, as it may become a template for future trade talks Trump holds with allies such as Japan, India and the European Union.   ...