Orbán and AMLO The EU must contend with Hungarian President Viktor Orbán and the U.S. must contend with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). While Orbán undermines the freedom of the press, judicial independence, and political fairness, AMLO is out to restrict imports from the U.S. and sides with the autocratic rulers of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. He announced today that he will not attend this week’s Summit of the Americas because it excludes these three rogue nations. The difference is that Russian aggression makes Orbán and Hungary more valuable to Brussels whereas Washington can simply ignore AMLO and play its own cat and mouse game on issues. IPEF Leverage T...
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.