Anti-Competition The U.S. dairy industry complains that the EU’s effort to codify geographic indicator (GI) protection for its various cheese products is an effort to dismantle competition and erect barriers to trade. In many respects, the merger of food and technology provides a similar benefit to producers. By using biotechnology, material science and other approaches, the food industry creates products that are more impervious to competition due to their high cost of entry and reduced comparative products. Thus, Brussels tries to keep out new technology products by arguing they are unsafe, while Washington promotes technology and tries to defeat GIs. Wrong Places Country music performer Johnny Lee sang about looking for...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.