U.S. politicians have American industry now facing billions of dollars' worth of trade retaliation under the WTO for having tried to stymie food imports from Canada and Mexico with an oppressive country of origin labeling (COOL) requirement, and they are not done yet. TPP SPS In the alphabet soup of trade policy, word is that trade negotiators in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will take up the subject of Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) measures at next month's session in Vietnam. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb may be correct that the negotiations are unlikely to conclude by the targeted year's end, particularly with the difficult market access section unfinished, but there has been a steady stream of progress in TPP. Transat...
What You Need to Know Today: Commodities were mostly lower across the board today after yesterday’s Federal Reserve meeting hinted at a potential interest rate hike later in 2026. The dollar index reached its highest level in over a year, and a strong dollar makes U.S. agricultural expor...
Tomorrow is the Juneteenth federal holiday, and the USDA, along with the rest of the federal government and the CME, will be closed, so the monthly Cattle on Feed report was released a day early. The total number of cattle on feed in feedlots with 1,000 head or more capacity on 1 June amounted...
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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.