Irking Beijing Taiwan is working hard to beat China to membership in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Taipei has joined CPTPP member Australia in a WTO dispute against Beijing for its trade curbs against Lithuania, and it has removed most restrictions on food imports from CPTPP member Japan’s Fukushima region. Japan had said the latter was the biggest obstacle to Taiwan joining. The CPTPP committee on accessions meets Thursday to consider applications by China, Taiwan, and Ecuador. African Opportunity The Sixth EU-African Union Summit gets started this week and Brussels has big ideas. It announced last week a $150 billion investment fund and envisions Africa becoming a sup...
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...
Key Takeaways: The Middle East and North Africa's arid climate and limited water resources have created a structural dependence on imported wheat. Government wheat tenders in major importing countries serve as important benchmarks for global trade, providing insight into exporter competitivene...
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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.