USMCA Legislative Changes Identified This week the administration presented to Congress a Statement of Administrative Action (SAA), which is its legal view regarding what domestic laws and international trade agreement would need to be amended to adopt the USMCA. Some of the more complicated issues relate to domestic content of autos and auto parts, but the submission of this document from USTR builds some new context for the political debate around the USMCA. When the deal was struck (before the 2018 elections), congressional Democrats, especially in the House of Representatives, couched their support with the caveat that the agreement would have to have strong enforcement provisions. However, as the list of statutory changes unders...
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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