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      "title": "Record Beef Prices: The Smallest Herd Since 1951, the Packer Probe and the Import Fix",
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      "summary": "U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said technical talks with Canada were continuing but that a handful of outstanding issues were quite difficult to resolve, speaking as the G20 trade ministers' meeting closed in Milwaukee. He said the Trump administration was open to a deal but not inclined to go to zero tariffs, and that the question was whether Canada would say yes on some of the issues. Asked whether Washington was consulting U.S. automakers about a 50 percent tariff on Canada's auto sector on January 1 absent a deal, Greer said U.S. trade policy was focused on re-shoring manufacturing.",
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      "title": "Second other-countries lean-beef quota tranche opens",
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      "title": "Final Argentine lean-beef quota tranche opens",
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      "date": "2026-09-25",
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      "title": "Greer says United States has no urgency for a Canada trade deal",
      "summary": "Jamieson Greer said Donald Trump was comfortable with the United States' position on Canada. Greer said there was no urgency on the U.S. side to conclude a trade deal with Canada.",
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          "quote": "President Trump is comfortable with where we are on Canada."
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      "summary": "Six senators wrote to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer seeking information about steps the administration would take to make consumers whole for illegal IEEPA tariffs. The senators asked whether the administration had considered consumer restitution, tax relief, or direct payments.",
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          "quote": "Given these concerns, we write to seek information about what steps, if any, the Administration will take to make consumers whole for the illegal IEEPA tariffs—and, if President Trump’s replacement tariffs are also struck down, for those tariffs as well."
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      "date": "2026-09-16",
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      "title": "Trump directs review of Canadian goods in federal procurement",
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      "date": "2026-09-08",
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      "title": "Same day, Trump orders $50 billion of Canadian products off GSA procurement schedules",
      "summary": "Alongside the import bans, Trump directed the U.S. Trade Representative and the General Services Administration to remove Canadian-origin products from GSA's Multiple Award Schedules, the catalogue federal agencies buy from. USTR put the affected products at $50 billion and Trump posted that U.S. companies were barred from equivalent Canadian programs: no reciprocity, no access.",
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      "title": "Executive Order 14425 orders a review of mandatory beef country-of-origin labeling",
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      "date": "2026-08-26",
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      "title": "A second proclamation adds 300,000 tonnes, allocated to countries other than Argentina",
      "summary": "The August proclamation raised the aggregate in-quota quantity by 300,000 metric tons for 2026, administered first come, first served in three 100,000-tonne tranches opening September 1, October 1 and October 31. The volume was allocated entirely to \"other countries or areas,\" leaving the February Argentine allocation untouched, and the Agriculture Secretary and USTR were told to check whether the imports were in fact selling 25 percent below the market price.",
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          "quote": "(3) The additional 300,000 mt described in clauses (1) and (2) of this proclamation will be administered on a first come, first served basis in three 30 day tranches."
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          "quote": "(2) The additional 300,000 mt described in clause (1) of this proclamation will apply only to lean beef trimmings classifiable under HTSUS statistical reporting numbers 0201.30.5091, 0201.30.5097, 0202.30.5091, and 0202.30.5097."
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      "summary": "At the six-year review required by the agreement, the three countries met virtually and the United States refused to confirm a 16-year extension, leaving USMCA in force but on annual reviews and putting its future on the negotiating table. Canada and Mexico both backed extension. Greer said the U.S. would keep working with both to address the agreement's shortcomings and the trade deficits.",
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          "quote": "In accordance with the Agreement, the United States, Mexico, and Canada met virtually today to discuss the operation of the USMCA. The United States did not agree to renew the USMCA in its current form. As a result, the USMCA is not renewed. The United States will continue to engage with Mexico and Canada to address the Agreement’s shortcomings and our trade deficits with these countries."
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      "date": "2026-02-06",
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      "title": "Proclamation 11010 opens an extra 80,000 tonnes of tariff-free Argentine lean beef",
      "summary": "Trump signed a proclamation temporarily raising the beef tariff-rate quota, letting an additional 80,000 metric tons of Argentine lean beef trimmings in duty-free during 2026 in four quarterly tranches of 20,000 tonnes. Lean trimmings are blended with fattier domestic trimmings to make ground beef, so the action targeted the single most politically visible price in the grocery store.",
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          "quote": "The Proclamation permits an additional 80,000 metric tons of lean beef trimmings per year from Argentina to be imported tariff-free in four quarterly tranches of 20,000 metric tons each."
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          "quote": "After considering the information provided to me by the Secretary of Agriculture, among other relevant information, I am taking action to temporarily increase the quantity of in-quota imports of lean beef trimmings under the United States beef TRQ to increase the supply of ground beef for United States consumers. 10."
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