Playing Down Tariffs President Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan last week conceded that “there is still work to be done bringing tariff levels down in many other countries” but insisted that there are other fundamental trade priorities than simply bringing down tariffs. The Administration is correct that nontariff barriers and regulatory standards are important, but agriculture groups note that tariffs or duties are the go-to tool for managing trade. The Biden Administration itself has used tariffs on steel, aluminum, solar panels and other goods as its preferred form of border measure. The whole safeguard system of countervailing and antidumping measures relies on tariffs. So the Administration can try to...
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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