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DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog)
March 20, 2018
It looks like the U.S. trade policy efforts may well be leading Latin American nations to move in closer sync as they worry how to confront the U.S. effort to ... reminiscent of what the United States itself had proposed in the 1990s but which failed to materialize: a free trade area reaching from Canada to Chile.
New York Times
March 20, 2018
Urged on by big American food and soft-drink companies, the Trump administration is using the trade talks with Mexico and Canada to try to limit the ability of the pact's three members — including the United States — to warn consumers about the dangers of junk food, according to confidential documentsÃâà...
Transport Topics Online
March 20, 2018
Today, the United States has 14 free trade agreements in place with 20 different countries. Trade policy should continue to support the original goal behind their adoption: to help U.S. companies compete in a complex global environment. That is not to say that these free trade agreements do not need toÃâà...
Roll Call
March 20, 2018
“I have been in the Senate for 42 years, and this is one of the most challenging environments for U.S. trade that I've seen,” Hatch said, according to prepared remarks. “When it comes to trade policy, we're all seeing the dangerous pitfalls that are currently in our path. They threaten to undermine and undoÃâà...
Business in Vancouver
March 13, 2018
Months before U.S. President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would slap tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, steel prices had been on the rise. That is partly due to demand, since the global economy is firing on all cylinders. But China, which produces about half of the world's steel, has also beenÃâà...
Brookings Institution (blog)
March 6, 2018
In a country as large and economically diverse as the United States, these macro policy shocks have local consequences and, once again, America's local and state economic officials are asking how this latest trade policy shift will influence their own economies. At least three scenarios are possible for U.S.Ãâà...
