A Plan for Doha Round Revival
WTO agricultural negotiators met in late March for deeper discussions on trade policy issues for a program of work to be outlined by July 31 that would lead to a conclusion of the Doha Round of...
View ArticleEU Considering Import Opt-Out for Biotech Crops
The EU recently changed its biotech crop approval process to allow member countries to reject planting biotech crops even though they are determined to be safe by the European Food Safety Authority...
View ArticleTPP Negotiations Reaching Toward the End Zone
Chief negotiators for the 12 countries working on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) will meet again on April 23-26 near Washington, DC in preparation for a ministerial...
View ArticleThe Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act
Congress, after months of delays searching for a bipartisan compromise in the Senate Finance Committee, is now fully engaged in the trade policy debate with a bill to renew trade promotion authority...
View ArticleChanges in EU Crop Biotech Import Policy
The EU Commission has proposed to allow member countries to opt out of importing biotech crops similar to the recent provision to opt out of planting biotech crops. This a sharp change from previous...
View ArticleArgentine Government Policy Drives Soybean Market
Many participants in the world soybean market see supplies from the three largest producing countries, the U.S., Brazil and Argentina, as being equally driven by market forces. That has been...
View ArticleBiotech Oranges as a Potential Solution to Citrus Greening
Ten years after citrus greening was discovered in Florida in 2005, the citrus industry is ready to field test a potential solution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved an...
View ArticleTracing Origin of U.S. Beef for the Chinese Market
When a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was discovered in the U.S. cattle herd in December 2003, China along with about a hundred other countries banned imports of U.S. beef. In the...
View ArticleMandatory Meat COOL – Now What?
For the fourth time in the last three years, the WTO has rejected regulations implementing the meat mandatory country of origin law (COOL) passed by the U.S. Congress. The Appellate Body ruled the...
View ArticleAgricultural Exporters Talk Fundamentals for TPP
Negotiators for the twelve countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement have taken a break after meeting in Guam for almost two weeks in late May. They are awaiting the U.S....
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