Insights and Stories on CUSMA

Trump signs CUSMA pact

Jan. 29, 2020 at 3:06 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a new North American trade agreement during an outdoor ceremony at the White House attended by about 400 guests — but not the key Democrats who helped secure congressional passage of the deal. Trump, on trial in the U.S. Senate […]

Improving global ag trade may not favour Canada

Jan. 22, 2020 at 7:35 pm CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

CBOT weekly outlook: Corn set to rally

Jan. 22, 2020 at 6:53 pm CST

By Marlo Glass – MarketsFarm

Canada/U.S. border signage in downtown Detroit.

Trudeau wants CUSMA deal ratified quickly

Jan. 21, 2020 at 11:13 am CST

By Kelsey Johnson Steve Scherer

U.S. grains: Corn, soy to one-month lows

Jan. 16, 2020 at 8:09 pm CST

By Julie Ingwersen

U.S. Senate passes CUSMA trade deal

Jan. 16, 2020 at 1:29 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved a revamp of the 26-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement that includes tougher rules on labour and automotive content but leaves US$1.2 trillion in annual U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade flows largely unchanged. The legislation for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) passed on an […]

By Reuters

CBOT weekly outlook: 2019 ends on high note

Jan. 8, 2020 at 6:23 pm CST

MarketsFarm — Despite a number of tough challenges in 2019, one broker at the Chicago Board of Trade said the year ended on a high note. “For what we went through with China this whole year, this trade war, you had corn, wheat and soybeans close higher for the year […]

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm

U.S. livestock: Cattle rally on tightening supplies, strong cash market

Jan. 6, 2020 at 7:28 pm CST

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. live cattle futures jumped by as much as two per cent on Monday and feeder cattle futures rose by up to three per cent, propelled by strong cash market prices and tightening supplies of animals, analysts said. A $2 jump in cash cattle prices at […]

By Karl Plume

Amended CUSMA pact includes anti-COOL clause

Jan. 4, 2020 at 2:40 am CST

The new Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), a free trade deal set to replace NAFTA, includes language meant to block any future bids at a trade-disrupting country-of-origin labeling (COOL) law. The new clause would, in theory, checkmate a move made last summer by some Democrat members of the U.S. House of Representatives […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. House passes CUSMA

Dec. 19, 2019 at 3:47 pm CST

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday backed a new trade agreement with neighbouring Mexico and Canada in a 385-41 bipartisan vote, sending the NAFTA replacement measure to the Senate for consideration early in 2020. Democrats, who control the House, approved the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (CUSMA) […]