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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
The Biden administration is having success at removing barriers to U.S. ag exports despite the lack of new tariff-reducing trade agreements, according to the U.S. Trade Representative's chief ag trade negotiator, Doug McKalip.
U.S. agricultural exports must contend with a wide range of trade barriers not based in science that impede access to overseas markets, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in its latest National Trade Estimate Report.
A former high-ranking USDA official in the Trump administration who now leads the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture voices concern that former Donald Trump's proposal to raise tariffs could hurt farmers.
USDA took a key step Thursday in rolling out its new $1.3 billion international trade initiative, the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, and unveiled plans for trade missions next year to Vietnam, India, South Korea, Canada, Colombia and Morocco.
Legislation is being introduced in the House and Senate to create a task force composed of officials with USDA and the U.S. Trade Representative's Office to identify agricultural trade barriers such as India’s farm subsidies that should be challenged at the World Trade Organization.
Congress continues to move toward a showdown on federal spending this week. But first, the Senate is going to take up a package of three fiscal 2024 spending bills, including the measure to fund the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai will be arriving in New Delhi Saturday for bilateral talks with Indian trade officials as the government there continues its controversial ban on rice exports.
China had no right to hit U.S. exports – including farm commodities - with retaliatory tariffs five years ago in response to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, according to a ruling Wednesday by a World Trade Organization dispute panel.
Drought, low prices, supply chain disruptions have been plaguing California’s walnut farmers for years and a heat wave during last year’s harvest scorched the state’s groves, but ideal weather so far this year has the sector optimistic that growers are going to see their fortunes change.
