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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Fresh produce growers and exporters are worried proposed plastic packaging regulations advancing globally will have a tremendous consequence on food safety and waste, and are pushing for some policies to be scaled back.
The first thing U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack did after the U.S. lost its second USMCA dairy battle with Canada was vow to keep on fighting – reminiscent of statements released by U.S. lawmakers and U.S. dairy groups, but that fight may be at an end after two exhaustive legal fights that both ended in a decision by a three-member dispute panel.
The Agriculture Department announced Wednesday it will dole out $300 million during the first year of its new $1.2 billion Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, or RAPP.
The U.S. lost its latest dispute with Canada over the country’s operation of a tariff rate quota for dairy imports under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, according to a Friday announcement from the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Brazil, a country that produces 42% of the world’s soybeans and 12% of its corn, is intrinsic to global food production, but all of that hinges on the South American nation’s ability to bring in billions of dollars’ worth of fertilizer from thousands of miles away. It’s a situation that Matt Simpson, CEO of the company Brazil Potash, said he wants to help change.
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.
Farm and biotech groups cheered when U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced the Biden administration would take on Mexico in a dispute over Mexican biotech corn restrictions, but the process is likely to stretch on for months.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack expressed confidence Monday that the USDA’s plan for voluntary country-of-origin labeling of U.S. meat won't spark trade disputes with its North American trading partners.
