The U.S. grain export industry – and the transportation sector broadly – are increasingly concerned about the USTR’s proposed Section 301 measures in connection to the “Investigation of China's Targeting of the Maritime, Logistics, and Shipbuilding Sectors for Dominance”. The proposed action promises massive fees to be applied to Chinese-built vessels docking in U.S. ports. The proposal has several conceptual flaws and will likely inflict costs on U.S. consumers and producers. Further, the measure will likely act as a taxpayer-funded subsidy to the South Korean and Japanese shipbuilding sectors and South American and Black Sea grain industries. The White House’s newly proposed Office of Shipbuilding also...
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.