Defining National Security: U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said the WTO “is getting itself on very, very thin ice” by ruling that Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs violated trade rules. She said the finding “challenges the integrity of the system.” Limits to Helping Ukraine: The EU’s policy of open imports from Ukraine to support the war effort will be reconsidered this coming summer. EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski says regarding agricultural products, “For some products, this policy will have to be revised. I know the farmers’ concerns and I see the problem. It is a matter of security, but for some products, this policy will have to be revised. Imports of some agricul...
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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