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USMCA: Building more integrated, resilient, and secure North American supply chains: A Brookings conversation

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is critical in building more integrated, resilient, and secure supply chains for all three North American country’s governments, industries, and civil societies. It sets rules and market access commitments for business and lays the foundation for expanding investment into complex and capital-intensive manufacturing and supply chains across North America. On…


LIVE 1 PM ET: USMCA: Building more integrated, resilient, and secure North American supply chains: A Brookings conversation

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is critical in building more integrated, resilient, and secure supply chains for all three North American country’s governments, industries, and civil societies. It sets rules and market access commitments for business and lays the foundation for expanding investment into complex and capital-intensive manufacturing and supply chains across North America. On…


LIVE NOW: USMCA: Building more integrated, resilient, and secure North American supply chains: A Brookings conversation

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is critical in building more integrated, resilient, and secure supply chains for all three North American country’s governments, industries, and civil societies. It sets rules and market access commitments for business and lays the foundation for expanding investment into complex and capital-intensive manufacturing and supply chains across North America. On…


End of Cheap Money for US Farmers Plows Trouble Into Food Production

CHICAGO—Montana farmer Sarah Degn had big plans to invest the healthy profits she gleaned for her soybeans and wheat this year into upgrading her planter or buying a new storage bin. But those plans have gone by the wayside. Everything Degn needs to farm is more expensive—and for the first time in her five-year career,…


Abbott Expanding Operation Lone Star in Effort to Secure Southern Border

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is expanding Operation Lone Star (OLS) in an effort to further secure the state’s southern border with Mexico. Abbott, who has been critical of President Joe Biden’s open border policies, sent a letter to Department of Public Safety  (DPS) Director Steve McCraw and Texas Military Department (TMP) Adjutant General Thomas Suelzer…