CRS report on agriculture and the NAFTA redo: three ‘opportunity’ areas

A new Congressional Research Service primer on agricultural issues in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiation identifies three broad areas that “could provide an opportunity to ‘modernize’” issues impacting U.S. exporters. Among other things, the 39-page report says that some of the issues “were addressed in recent U.S. trade negotiations under the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement,” which some argue “could provide a blueprint” for NAFTA renegotiations. (The report is timely because today, June 27, marks the first day of USTR...