ATLANTA — In the midst of a complex dance on dairy market access between the United States, Canada, Japan and New Zealand in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a key metric that some dairy exporters are using to evaluate the quality of offers on the table is the proportion of imports to total consumption, according…
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WASHINGTON — Trade ministers for the United States and 11 other Pacific nations gathered in Atlanta on Wednesday to try to reach agreement on the largest regional free-trade pact ever. But knotty differences persist, and antitrade blasts from American presidential candidates have not eased prospects for any deal. [ by Jackie Calmes | September…
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ATLANTA – The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial underway here will be extended at least through Friday (Oct. 2), as Mexico continues to take a hard line on the automotive rules of origin and significant gaps remain on dairy market access and the monopoly period for biologic drugs. [ October 1, 2015 | Inside U.S. Trade…
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ATLANTA – In a move that is likely to ignite a firestorm on Capitol Hill, the Obama administration on Wednesday (Sept. 30) formally proposed language in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that would prevent tobacco control measures from being challenged under the deal’s investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanism, according to sources close to the…
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For much of the past decade, the international dairy market did right by Tim Leary, creating opportunity for his farm in southern Maine by linking his fortunes with ever-wealthier Asian milk drinkers. But the downside of this globalizing dairy market revealed itself this month, when Leary watched a livestock hauler whisk away 21 of his cows,…
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I’m neither endorsing nor condemning Mr. Trump, but I do think he’s trying to save the Republican party from itself in a very rational way. The last thing he is is a clown or dilettante. (OK, maybe a clown.) [Reposted from the Huffington Post | Ian Fletcher | September 29, 2015] Why? Because the Republican…
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The United States imported 2.95 billion pounds and exported 2.57 billion of beef in 2014. This was the first year since 2009 that imports exceeded exports. [by Rob Cook | September 30, 2015 | Drovers Cattle Network] The first time that the United States ever exported more beef than it imported was in 2010.…
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A bipartisan group of 45 House lawmakers — including 11 Ways & Means Committee members and two members of the Agriculture Committee — have called on U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to further open the U.S. sugar market through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). [Reposted from Inside US Trade | September 30, 2015] In a letter…
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ATLANTA — On the first day of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial here, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman is set to hold bilateral meetings Wednesday (Sept. 30) with his counterparts from Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Vietnam and possibly Canada. He will also participate in a 2 p.m. plenary meeting where the four major TPP auto…
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US Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers recently announced the results of a study by Dermot Hayes and several of his colleagues at Iowa State University that showed that “excessive farm supports” in China, Brazil, India, and Turkey “could cost US wheat farmers nearly $1 billion in revenue” in the 2021 crop…
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