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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, December 19, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said he will sign a series of executive orders on his first day in office to impose new duties on imports from Canada, Mexico and China over what he characterized as their inaction on border security and fentanyl smuggling.
A raft of new trade and development deals inked by the Chinese and Brazilian governments on Wednesday, including agreements to boost several agriculture exports, indicates that Beijing is preparing for a Trump presidency, according to analysts.
China is ending an export tax rebate for used cooking oil, a common feedstock for renewable diesel, in a move analysts say could spur higher prices and prompt U.S. biofuel producers to explore other oil sources.
Revoking China’s favorable trade status would backfire on the U.S. economy, with sectors such as agriculture especially hard hit, according to a report by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
Leaders of the House and Senate Ag committees are working together to lay the groundwork for passing a farm bill before the end of the year. That’s according to a memo to House Ag Committee Democrats from the panel’s ranking member, David Scott of Georgia.
Leading advocates for former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris clashed over trade, immigration and tax policy during an informal debate Monday.
In this opinion piece, former U.S. Senator and Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns criticizes legislation recently introduced in Congress that he contends would give foreign entities the power to bring frivolous patent lawsuits that threaten the use of advanced agricultural technology by family farmers.
Well before he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee, Tim Walz sat down with Agri-Pulse to talk about his district, the virtues of bipartisanship in crafting a farm bill, and the U.S. relationship with China.
The top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo, warned leaders of the nation’s farmer cooperatives Thursday that U.S. inaction on trade agreements is benefiting China and that both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris pose problems for trade policy.
