Former DPJ Minister for Agriculture Masahiko Yamada is suing the Japanese government over its Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, arguing it threatens not just the nation's farms but its food security as well. Rational versus Irrational Trade Debate Including currency manipulation in the list of measures subject to redress under U.S. import relief laws may be the price of achieving congressional passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). It is not a very heavy price, given that it will only result in some fairly standardized WTO litigation in the future. The U.S. has lost dozens of past countervailing and antidumping duty cases in the WTO, some due to its own manipulations, such as defining a partially government-owned company...
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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