Trump’s China Mystery U.S. President Donald’s Trump’s characterization of his negotiations with the Chinese are not adding up unless Xi’s government is having troubles. He has softened his strategy, and the Chinese are playing nice. He is as unconventional as ever. Mr. Trump’s branded art of the deal is pressure and leverage. He imposed a 90-day limit on the negotiations with Beijing, reflecting a common sense view that there would be no pressure to reach an agreement without a deadline. However, the deadline has now vanished, and he’s holding back on his earlier commitment to impose more tariffs if there is no deal. Instead, he now says, “I’m in no rush. I want the deal to be right.”...
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.