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Articles Tagged with ''European Union''

Katherine Tai

USTR vows to resolve EU trade spats, but largely mum on China

04/28/21 3:24 PM By Bill Tomson

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai promised lawmakers Wednesday that work has begun to work out trade disputes with the European Union and the UK to create what President Joe Biden calls “a united front of U.S. allies,” but she largely left questions about China unanswered as the U.S. continues to study the situation.


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Tom Vilsack

Daybreak April 23: Vilsack defends planned CRP expansion

04/23/21 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Bill Tomson, and Steve Davies

The nation’s largest farm group is calling on the White House to clarify President Joe Biden’s goal of conserving 30% of U.S. land by 2030.

“The concerns of farmers and ranchers are escalating regarding the intent of the 30x30 goal, the definition of conservation, and the metrics for defining success, among other things,” the American Farm Bureau Federation says in a letter to the White House.


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Barge3

US signals a turn to the green on trade and asks world to follow

04/21/21 6:48 AM By Bill Tomson
The U.S. was one of nine countries critical of the European Union last year when it unveiled a plan to tax imports based on their carbon footprint, but that was under the Trump administration. Now the Biden administration is signaling a stronger kinship to the EU’s push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on an international scale.
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European Union

EU farmers contest South America trade pact

02/17/21 6:23 AM By Bill Tomson
European farmers and ranchers offered their support as the EU signed pacts with Mexico, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, but they are raising alarms now over a massive deal with four South American countries that make up the Mercosur trade bloc.
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