The #Trump admin also pushed #Canada & #Mexico to adopt a prohibition on imports made by forced labor as part of prior #trade negotiations, & 10 other countries have committed to bans as part of trade deals negotiated over the past year, a senior admin official said.

But critics say the #US, too, has shortfalls on its labor protections. And some say that the admin has seized on forced labor as merely the most convenient way to reimpose #tariffs struck down by #SCOTUS [ya think?].

#law #economy

RE: stranger.social/@DeniseG/11685…

had to scour #weather apps to find service providers that don’t rely on #NOAA. found a couple that use #Norway’s weather service.

so am putting a call out for #Brasil #Chile #Canada #Mexico #France #Spain #Germany #weather app developers: if you use your countries’ weather services, i beg you to add them to @fdroidorg

and to those governments: PLEASE OPEN YOUR APIs & DON’T GEOBLOCK USERS

our lives depend on free-open access to weather reports in a world with a NOAA destroyed by #MAGA #Trump

USMCA wasn’t renewed by #Trump today.

#Canada and #Mexico are now in for 10 years of constant reviews.

What does that mean?

“Without a 16-year extension, the agreement moves into a period of annual reviews that will last for a decade.

Technically, this is an exit ramp.

If no extension agreement is reached by 2036, the USMCA will expire.

However, there will be plenty of opportunities to reach an agreement before that final deadline.”

theglobeandmail.com/business/a…

USMCA wasn’t renewed. What’s next for the North American trade deal?

Where negotiations go from here, the possibility of separate bilateral pacts, and what non-renewal could mean for the Canadian economy

^{Mark Rendell (The Globe and Mail)}