
USMCA Review Ends Without Renewal as Washington Starts 2036 Expiry Countdown
Washington declined to renew at the USMCA review in July, leaving Mexico and Canada on borrowed time with annual expiry...
September 4, 2026The United States and Canada set the price of money, the direction of technology, and the trade rules the rest of the world lives by. The Rio Times covers North America through an emerging-market lens: the Fed and the dollar, Wall Street and the AI boom, tariffs and the policies that decide how capital flows to – or away from – Latin America. This hub gathers our daily US and Canada coverage and connects it to the wider Global South story.

Washington declined to renew at the USMCA review in July, leaving Mexico and Canada on borrowed time with annual expiry...
September 4, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for September 4: August payrolls beat forecasts as July is revised higher, Lutnick and Carney...
September 4, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for September 3: Carney doubles down on domestic manufacturing after byelection wins, the Fed's Warsh...
September 3, 2026
US strikes on Iran resume, Tehran answers across four countries, the Bank of Canada holds at 2.25% — the USA...
September 2, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for September 1: the G20 corridor in Asheville, oil repricing the Fed, and Canada's counter-tariff...
September 1, 2026
USA & Canada Intelligence Brief for August 31: Trump demands Canadian companies move south “immediately”, Ottawa’s counter-tariffs take effect September
August 31, 2026
The USMCA 2026 review ended without a confirmed extension. What the July 1 decision, 50% steel tariffs and annual reviews...
August 31, 2026
Nvidia posted $96.2 billion against a $92.4 billion consensus and guided to $108 billion, its fifteenth straight beat, with zero...
August 30, 2026
Operation Economic Outcast designated 78 targets on day one, opened five Iranian sectors to secondary sanctions and warned every country...
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