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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2017 - U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer both want a drastic sunset provision to be included in a new North American Free Trade Agreement, Ross said today, but Canadian and Mexican officials say they are opposed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2017 - A lot of work to support agricultural trade got done during the second round of negotiations to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement last week in Mexico City, but those talks are expected to be tame compared to what’s to come in Ottawa and beyond as the negotiations build steam.
Washington, Sept. 7, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the realignment of a number of offices within USDA to improve customer service and maximize efficiency. The department says the changes build on the reorganization Perdue announced in May.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20, 2017 - Negotiators wrapped up a first round of talks on revising the North American Free Trade Agreement that included discussions about sanitary and phytosanitary rules important to agricultural trade.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17, 2017 – As expected, South Korea has opened its market to U.S. poultry and eggs after enacting a ban in March over concerns stemming form U.S. cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2017 - The top U.S. trade negotiator opened the historic renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement by bluntly warning that the pact has “fundamentally failed many, many Americans” despite its benefits to farmers and border communities and needs “major improvement.”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2017 - Groups for and against USDA’s proposal to allow China to export cooked chicken to the U.S. are weighing in with their opinions as the comment deadline ends today.
WASHINGTON, August 9, 2017 - Next week U.S., Canadian and Mexican negotiators will be filling up the conference rooms at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in northwest Washington to begin the first round of deliberations on overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement.
WASHINGTON, July 28, 2017 – Japanese purchases of U.S. beef are about to be subject to a 50 percent tariff after imports in the three-month period ending June 30 triggered a “safeguard” mechanism.
WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - U.S. growers of corn, soybean, wheat and other crops want to keep their ability to export freely to Mexico and Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement as the pact is renegotiated, but so do Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers – and that could complicate things.
