Ukraine Crop Harvest Off to a Good Start
The latest crop report as of mid-July by the U.S. Agricultural Attaché in Ukraine shows harvest of winter grains on track despite disruptions from military movements. Spring crops had timely rains...
View ArticleTPP Issues Remain to be Resolved
The chief negotiators for the 12 countries creating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) are expected to hold their next meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam on September 1-10. This...
View ArticleRussian Retaliation to Sanctions
The Russian government’s response to sanctions imposed by western governments as a consequence of Russian actions in Ukraine was to impose agricultural product import restrictions on its people for one...
View ArticleConsolidation in Chinese Agriculture is Pushed Forward
Farm consolidation has become an ongoing issue in China. The No. 1 Central Document for 2014 released jointly in January by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese...
View ArticleEU Biotech Decisions
One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming existing relationships that are less...
View ArticleSugar from Mexico
Last week the Department of Commerce assessed preliminary import duties of up to 17.01 percent on sugar entering from Mexico after the department found the Mexican government had provided subsidies...
View ArticleTPP Negotiators Make Progress, But It’s Not a Done Deal
As a 10-day meeting of chief negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement in Hanoi, Vietnam, wound down, the outcome was about as expected. Options were narrowed,...
View ArticleCultivating Biotech Crops in the EU
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting of biotech drops may be approved by the end of the year. According to a...
View ArticleWTO’s Future Again Questioned over Trade Facilitation Agreement
A new future for the WTO was acclaimed last December after the WTO Ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia approved a set of agricultural trade policy changes known as the Bali Package. This was the...
View ArticleEU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
As the seventh round of negotiations on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade agreement took place, the EU Commission released a text of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic...
View ArticleWTO ‘Brazil Cotton’ Case Finally Settled
The Brazilian and U.S. governments have disagreed over U.S. domestic cotton and export credit policies at the WTO for the last twelve years. They now have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that is...
View ArticlePresident Obama Urged to Consult with Chinese about Biotech Crops
Thirteen associations representing a broad cross-section of the U.S. agricultural export value chain recently wrote President Obama requesting his attention to “Chinese agricultural biotechnology...
View ArticleRussian Retaliation to Sanctions
The Russian government’s response to sanctions imposed by western governments as a consequence of Russian actions in Ukraine was to impose agricultural product import restrictions on its people for one...
View ArticleConsolidation in Chinese Agriculture is Pushed Forward
Farm consolidation has become an ongoing issue in China. The No. 1 Central Document for 2014 released jointly in January by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese...
View ArticleEU Biotech Decisions
One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming existing relationships that are less...
View ArticleSugar from Mexico
Last week the Department of Commerce assessed preliminary import duties of up to 17.01 percent on sugar entering from Mexico after the department found the Mexican government had provided subsidies...
View ArticleTPP Negotiators Make Progress, But It’s Not a Done Deal
As a 10-day meeting of chief negotiators for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement in Hanoi, Vietnam, wound down, the outcome was about as expected. Options were narrowed,...
View ArticleCultivating Biotech Crops in the EU
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting of biotech drops may be approved by the end of the year. According to a...
View ArticleWTO’s Future Again Questioned over Trade Facilitation Agreement
A new future for the WTO was acclaimed last December after the WTO Ministerial meeting in Bali, Indonesia approved a set of agricultural trade policy changes known as the Bali Package. This was the...
View ArticleEU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
As the seventh round of negotiations on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade agreement took place, the EU Commission released a text of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic...
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