Psychological Warfare In addition to farmers, China knows that Donald Trump’s other weak spot is the American economy and, more specifically, the stock market. The Chinese State Council’s announcement of proposed retaliatory tariffs accomplished its mission (with help from Mr. Trump), sending Wall Street and Chicago into a full risk-off day. However, the tariffs are only at 5-10 percent. Those are not so much punitive as annoying. Moreover, if critics of Mr. Trump’s tariffs are correct, those to be imposed by Beijing are mostly punitive to the Chinese people. Both sides are trying to make a point while minimizing the damage. That is why it is a drip, drip, drip campaign – not black torture like beatings but so-calle...
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.