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Saturday, November 23, 2024
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2017 - A lot of work to support agricultural trade got done during the second round of negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement last week in Mexico City, but those talks are expected to be tame compared to what’s to come in Ottawa and beyond as the negotiations build steam.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30, 2017 – Discounting President Donald Trump’s repeated negative comments – whether in speeches or tweets – the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement is moving quickly, positively and without animosity, according to ag sector and government sources.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2017 -- President Trump's latest threat to pull the U.S. out of NAFTA is causing some jitters in the U.S. ag sector. But are they real or just a negotiating ploy?
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2017 - Negotiators wrapped up a first round of talks on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement that included discussions about sanitary and phytosanitary rules important to agricultural trade.
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2017 - Next week U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators will be filling up the conference rooms at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest Washington to begin the first round of deliberations on overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement.
WISCONSIN, August 9, 2017 - “Labor is a huge issue and we’ve got people working on it full time to provide some reasonable solutions not only for agriculture people but for the American people,” Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue told Agri-Pulse ...
MEXICO, August 9, 2017 -A Mexican district court judge in Los Mochis ruled last week that the systems approach for U.S. fresh potato imports “lacks scientific basis” and, citing phytosanitary concerns, ordered a continued ban on U.S. potatoes in most of Mexico.
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2017 - With formal negotiations scheduled to start Aug. 16, energy groups representing over 750 oil and gas companies in the U.S., Mexico and Canada have drafted the North American Oil & Natural Gas Industry Positions on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
WASHINGTON, August 2, 2017 - The U.S. dairy sector is fighting harder than ever on several fronts to halt the European Union’s global efforts to block cheese producers in other countries from using names like Roquefort, Asiago and Gorgonzola on the products they export.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – Mexico may talk about getting its grains from countries other than the United States, but Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said today that he doesn’t think the country is serious.
