Trade in agricultural products between the U.S. and Mexico is massive: the U.S. ships nearly $20 billion in farm exports to Mexico each year. But that relationship could be in jeopardy.

The $1.2 billion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden late last year has been heralded by some as the solution to the problem of how to repair and expand the nation’s crumbling and antiquated system of roads, rails, ports, airports and waterways. One can only hope.

Can global businesses meet ethical standards for behavior even as they’re struggling to survive?

Is sustainability in fashion in the apparel supply chain?

Are workers’ rights in the mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo being sacrificed to the world’s hunger for cobalt?

Think it will be difficult to bring back manufacturing to the United States? Getting out of China isn’t so easy either.

It wasn’t too long ago that we began seeing signs of a return of manufacturing from China back to the U.S. Has someone flipped the script?