Trade Policy Shorts U.S.-China Joint Fact Sheet: The visit by Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping required a long list of commitments by the two countries. If one has confidence that the Americans will greatly reduce their budget deficit and make timely approval of giving Beijing dual-use technologies like aircrafts, then one can have confidence that China will meet its commitments to more rapid movement to a market-based exchange rate and rapid expansion of imports.Lead or Get out of the Way: Some countries are mad that the U.S. and others are pursuing plurilateral agreements on things like services outside of the Doha talks, charging that this will undermine the multilateral effort. But the WTO has already altered the single undertaking...
What You Need to Know Today: Declining crop conditions ratings and shaky results from the Pro Farmer crop tour sent grains sharply higher on Tuesday. The Pro Farmer tour in Ohio pegged the state yield at 180.18 BPA, about 5.5 BPA below the tour’s 2025 estimate. Similarly, the Pro Farmer...
Based on a Depression-era statute, President Trump imposed 50 percent tariffs on $20 billion of exports to the U.S., or about 5.2 percent of the $383 billion worth of goods the U.S. imported from Canada in 2025, according to U.S. Census Bureau data. Of that total, about $39.3 billion was agricu...
Key Takeaways: Brazil’s growing role in global agriculture is accompanied by a major vulnerability: the country imports approximately 88 percent of its fertilizer needs. High natural gas costs and development challenges have limited domestic nitrogen and potash production despite Brazil&...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.