Transatlantic Relations The White House has language on a minerals deal will the EU that will likely be a topic at Thursday’s Senate Finance Committee hearing featuring USTR Katherine Tai. Not all senators are keen on the transaction. Some agriculture state senators prefer a trade negotiation that improves the situation for American farmers. Transatlantic trade reached a record in 2022 but in agriculture, EU exports to the U.S. increased by twice as much as U.S. exports to Europe and boosted the trade advantage ratio to 2.6 in favor of Europe. Elsewhere it is noted that AD/CVD duties on Spanish olives irritated Spain but it merely boosted imports of olives from Greece. Meanwhile, the number of European countries reaching their...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.