Trade

The China trade deal: Phase One of what for U.S. farmers?

President Donald Trump announced that on January 15, President Xi Jinping will come to the White House for the signing ceremony of an 86-page Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), characterized by Trump as “Phase One” of a trade deal that includes a temporary and partial truce in the U.S.-Chin

In Advance of Thursday Vote, Leading Farm, Food and Public Health Groups Call on Congress to Reject USMCA

WASHINGTON—Congress is expected to vote Thursday on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) or New NAFTA.

New NAFTA is Lost Opportunity to Reform Corporate Trade Deals

Deal Does Not Address the Farm Crisis, But Will Exacerbate Climate Crisis and Jeopardize Health and Public Safety

Looking back to think forward in Seattle

Twenty years ago, more than 50,000 activists took to the streets in Seattle at the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations to protest global trade talks intended to rewrite the rules of the global economy.

NAFTA's Empty Promises

Originally published in The Storm Lake Times and The Progressive Populist.

EU-Mercosur deal lets agribusiness off the hook and exacerbates climate crisis

In August, out-of-control fires in the Amazon brought home the connections between the destruction of the rain forest, factory farms producing meat for international markets and global warming. Media attention may have moved on to newer wildfir

Data Gaps and Market Disruptions

If the financial markets were a global plumbing system, inaccurate or incomplete financial reporting would be leaks in the system. A leak here or there wouldn’t disrupt the public’s understanding of the financial risks of their investments and the solvency of the major market players.