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The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
Better than sxiktestimates. Road map begins with slowdown concern, tariffs and decelerating Global Growth weighing on the economy in q2. Top white house economic adviser larry kudlow will join us first on cnbc. We have investors buoyed this morning by strong earnings from tech giants such as alphabet, twitter, and intel all of those stocks pointing to a higher open. And starbucks rallying as well as sales surge. The coffee retailer raising its outlook. Kevin johnson joins us first on cnbc this hour futures are higher on those upbeat earnings. Gdp did slow to 2. 1, but beat expectations earnings big picture today googles parent beating big on both the top and the bottom lines. Twitter also beat the street, reporting 139 million monetizable daily users, more than the street had been looking for. Biggest number in about two years. Amazon did miss on earnings, revenue was ahead. First time in five quarters that amazon did not post a record profit, taking a hit from shipping costs the thesi
Macro side. Aljazeera paris still to come why academics in israel are being targeted in a socalled witch hunt by right wing nationalists. And where in ethiopia where villagers say the water wells have been in desperate need of repair. Hello there its been a very unsettled picture of course across much of Southern Europe this is an improvement the weather picture as we head through the next couple of days saw a bit of chat on the satellite and actually quite a bit of activity across Central Regions of western europe but what about the rain just yet but the good news is a sigh is that much of the south in the southeast those strong thunderstorms that really are clearing through certainly by friday the rain pushing using say across much of the black sea quite a bit radical central areas and there is a band of rain stretching really from germany down tools and old and if they more widespread rain here on saturday carrying out towards the west and i say london with a high of 23 and pretty g
A concrete and effective solution on the docks issue of digital activities the tax targets firms with a global revenue of more than 800000000. 00 including 30000000. 00 in france at least 30 companies will have to pay 3 percent tax on their french revenues because most are american including amazon and apple facebook and google washington says the levy is discriminatory in a statement the u. S. Is trade representative said the President Donald Trump had directed the we investigate the effects of this legislation and determine whether it is discriminatory or unreasonable and burdens or restricts United States commerce the u. S. Investigation could lead to washington imposing retaliate tree tariffs on france thats something the french government would want to avoid but theres little doubt that there is a growing sense of frustration amongst many french politicians with trumps approach to international disagreements that we should mr trump threatens everyone in all areas hes become an art