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Congress continues on its summer recess with attention this week focused on a central banker confab and the Farm Journal Midwest Crop Tour.

U.S. takes on China at WTO | Biodiesel trade decision | Tax reform options | Immigration reform | Debt ceiling hike | NAFTA 2.0 | OPEC | Solar eclipse

Trump: Withdrawal from NAFTA ‘probably’ will happen | South Korea pushes back on reopening KORUS | Trade restraints imposed on imports of Argentine, Indonesia biodiesel | EU probe of Bayer-Monsanto deal

The House will depart for the summer recess once its weekly agenda is completed while the Senate will remain in session another two weeks. The FOMC has a two-day meeting ending Wednesday.

Sen. McCain returns as the Senate gears up for a key health-care procedural vote. Meanwhile, GOP leaders mull whether they want a minibus or omnibus regarding spending bills.

A Canadian perspective on NAFTA.

NAFTA 2.0 talks begin | Trump issues executive order on infrastructure | DOJ settles Calif. farmer WOTUS case | Dicamba update | IMF ups China economic forecast, with a warning

Parsing the FOMC minutes

Stark contrast in U.S., Canada & Mexico NAFTA 2.0 comments | Canada and dairy | Bannon fires off on China, trade and N. Korea | Chicken imports from China | WOTUS Rule comment period extended

Pro Farmer’s Jim Wiesemeyer comments on progress needed to move NAFTA 2.0 forward.