Interstate Trade War Georgetown University Professor Marc L. Busch notes that the trade agreement between Canada and the U.S. forced Canada to liberalize trade between its own provinces. The rules and regulations at provincial level intended to protect local businesses had a trade burden equivalent to a 6.9 percent tariff. The EU’s single market concept still has a lot of work to do as nationalists increasingly resort to protections like country-of-origin labeling, but the U.S. is not innocent in this regard. The Interstate Commerce Clause has been shredded by states like California enacting their own pollution laws and restrictions on how animals and products are produced out of state. The “buy local” emphasis in recent...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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