Representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada sit down to hash out trade disagreements this week, while President Joe Biden continues discussions with Republicans on an infrastructure package.
 
The online meeting Monday and Tuesday of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s Free Trade Commission will be historic not just because it’s the first such confab but also because all three countries will be represented by women: U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, Mexican Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier, and Mary Ng, Canada’s minister of small business, export promotion and international trade.
 
A USTR statement said the meeting would feature “robust discussions about USMCA’s landmark labor and environmental obligations, which set the standard for future trade agreements.” Tai has promised lawmakers she will press her Mexican and Canadian counterparts on agricultural trade complaints.
 
During two days of hearings on Capitol Hill last week she promised Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, that she would confront Clouthier over Mexico’s plans to ban GMO corn as well as glyphosate.
 
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