Atlantic Risks EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovkis is a serious and competent politician. He is now signaling that reaching a conceptual deal with the U.S. on the trade in steel and aluminum is stalled and without prospect. Meanwhile, the Biden Administration appears unable to make concessions on tariff rate quotas adversely impacting imports from the EU. This is highly risky to U.S. agriculture since its products are a key focus for retaliation by Brussels if this issue continues unresolved. Separately, the Commissioner appears more helpful of reaching a transatlantic agreement on critical minerals. Mixed Reviews of Asks Major U.S. agricultural groups presented a series of policy requests to the President’s Export Counc...
What You Need to Know Today: There has already been a strong run of flash soybean sales announcements in recent weeks, but more than 1.4 MMT reported this morning is an exceptionally large single-day total with major implications for the market. If the sales to China and unknown destinations w...
On Friday, at 6:57 AM, President Donald Trump announced, via a social media post, a 90-day window during which up to 300,000 metric tons of product for ground beef could be imported outside of tariff-rate quotas—a move aimed at bringing down costs for American consumers. This is the secon...
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