Articles by Bill Tomson

U.S. negotiators are on their way home from Beijing, but the exhaustive negotiations to try to end the U.S.-China trade war will continue almost immediately next week in Washington D.C., the White House announced today.

If the Trump administration wants the legislatures in the U.S., Mexico and Canada to ratify the renegotiated trade agreement that binds all three countries with virtually no ag trade tariffs, it’s going to have to lift its steel and aluminum tariffs, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said Wednesday.

President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday he doesn’t expect to be able to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping before the trade war between the two countries escalates at the beginning of March.

Southern U.S. tomato farmers scored a victory today with a long sought-after decision by the Commerce Department to reopen an anti-dumping investigation into Mexican tomato shipments.

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service confirmed a sale of 612,000 metric tons of U.S. soybeans to China for the 2018-19 marketing year.

China is following through on Vice Premier Liu He's pledge at the White House to buy more U.S. soybeans.

China pledged to immediately begin ramping up U.S. soybean purchases by buying at least 5 million tons, Vice Premier Liu He announced today in the White House after two days of negotiations.