Support for Trade Democrats and Republicans do not agree on much but House Ways & Means Committee Chair Richard Neal (D-Massachusetts) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) both counselled the Biden Administration to pursue more trade agreements like the USMCA. That is perhaps not so surprising given that appointments to the Ways & Means Committee and especially its Trade Subcommittee tend to be pro-trade politicians. But framing it in the context of USMCA also makes it easier since organized labor achieved some of its ambitions in that agreement, and the Biden Administration has been heavily challenging Mexico based on those provisions. Energy Stress Focuses the Mind It was unclear until today whether the European Parli...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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