The first meeting of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Free Trade Commission will be a busy one as U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai listed several items she will raise in the meeting as she testified last week before U.S. congressional trade panels. Mexico's GMO and glyphosate actions, Mexican labor issues and Canadian dairy actions are all items Tai said she will be raising with her counterparts from Mexico and Canada in the first meeting of the Free Trade Commission this week.
On other trade areas, Tai still did not shed a lot of light on the U.S. trade focus ahead nor provide lawmakers with additional information on the U.S. worker-centric trade policy. She did not provide much more on the timeline for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which expires in July and did not give lawmakers a significant update on prospects for U.S.-Kenya or U.S.-UK trade negotiations that were started by the Trump administration.