The Non-Sucralose-Coated Sugar-High A recent poll indicating President Biden is in some reelection trouble even against Donald Trump doesn’t change the fundamental context for U.S. trade policy. Both politicians have now embraced protectionism on behalf of manufacturing labor. While Mr. Biden has long been a defender of labor unions, conservatives are now listening to Oren Cass who argues it is important for nations to make things, and future economic performance is guided by the breadth of goods produced and their sophistication. Behavioral economics was groundbreaking. Free traders are absolutists, but people do not follow pure economics doctrinaire, nada neither do countries. Regardless of the net benefits, to save free trade, it...
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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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.