Diverse Trade Policy USTR’s Annual Trade Policy Review called for a change in policy toward China, though it provided no details. USTR Katherine Tai has emphasized the importance of making it worker centric and environmentally conscious. Toward the goal of making U.S. trade policy inclusive, she has asked the USITC to analyze U.S. trade policy’s impact on workers, including by gender and race. By contrast, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Chris Coons (D-Delaware) are promoting legislation (The Trading System Preservation Act) focused on actual trade negotiations. They would authorize USTR to begin negotiation focused on sector-specific trade agreements at the WTO. Green Agriculture Impacts In April 2021, Sri...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.