Transatlantic Dance Brussels and Washington are beginning to work together again. This week the EU acknowledged that America’s concern with the WTO’s appellate process has validity, and President Biden’s USTR decided against using the carousel of mixing up the products currently under retaliation in the Airbus case. Both sides are also more aligned in their messaging to Russia, and soon to emerge will be agreement on creating a coalition to deal with China. There are still great rifts that will be more challenging, but this is the trust building stage and it eventually leads to solutions on trickier items. Historically there have been intractable issues between the two sides and so not all differences can be resolved, but...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.