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...
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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