The CBOT was sharply lower to start the holiday-shortened trading week with Friday’s ruling that President Trump’s tariffs may be illegal throwing ag and other markets into confusion. The ruling makes unclear the outlook for negotiating further trade deals – or even continuing newly-inked agreements – and opens the potential that $160 billion in tariff revenue might have to be returned. The wide-ranging impacts of this move have made markets deeply unsure now of what happens next. Treasury Secretary Bessent expressed confidence that the Supreme Court will overturn the ruling, but initial claims by legal experts suggest the court may be equally inclined to uphold or strike down the ruling. The immediate consequences o...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.