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Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

UK delivers 350 ASRAAM air-to-air missiles to Ukraine as part of record £4.5 billion aid package: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/uk-delivers-asraam-airtoair-missiles.html

Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components…

Collaboration agreements between ICE, local police soar 950 percent in Trump’s first year: Analysis
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5740760-trump-immigration-enforcement-agreements/

European Union and Mercosur bloc of South American nations sign landmark free trade agreement (Nayara Batschke/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/mercosur-european-union-trade-agreement-south-america-b779460da4b7ecb6aa15d322976fa70d
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p40#a260117p40

Google signs a power purchase agreement with Ormat to supply up to 150 MW of geothermal energy to its Nevada data centers through NV Energy starting in 2028 (Lauren Rosenthal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Canada’s defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.
A news release from the Department of National Defence says David McGuinty,
along with defence ministers for Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Islands
have signed a memorandum of understanding for Canada-Denmark defence cooperation.
The release says the MOU covers areas including defence innovation,
industrial cooperatio…

Canada signs agreement for defence cooperation with Denmark
Canada's defence minister has signed an agreement at an international security forum to strengthen co-operation with Denmark on defence matters.

Crypto trading firm GSR says it is acquiring Autonomous and Architech for $57M, expanding into token advisory and capital markets services (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/17/c…

Crypto trading firm GSR expands token advisory with $57 million in acquisitions
The firm, best known for being one of the oldest crypto market makers, acquired Autonomous and Architech to combine token launch services, trading and treasury management tools.

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e814f4c3-4fb5-4e2e-90a6-470044436b39

The Department of Commerce says the US and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement as part of which Taiwan will invest $250B in chip production capacity in the US (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/us-taiwan-chips-deal-china.html

Taiwan will invest $250 billion in U.S. chipmaking under new trade deal
The U.S. and Taiwan have reached a trade agreement to build chips and chip factories on American soil, the Department of Commerce announced Thursday.