Tariffs are Coming While U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump has promised more tariffs if he is elected, border measures against China are likely regardless of this year’s winner of the White House. China has ramped up bank credits to producers of EV’s, batteries, solar, and microchips. It is making a push on industrial production to offset a serious slump in real estate. Biden Administration officials were dispatched to Beijing this week to plead for restraint, but domestic economic needs come first for Beijing. EU Politicians Cave The Greens in Europe are sticking to their guns, proposing even faster decarbonization as their policy plank ahead of this year’s elections. To respond to the current...
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.