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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, March 02, 2025
Gregg Doud, former chief agricultural trade negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, argued Thursday that the U.S. faces a daunting task in kickstarting growth in U.S. agricultural exports.
The U.S. and India have announced officials will begin work on a trade deal that will reduce tariffs and other trade barriers for goods and services, as well as expand agricultural trade.
This is the last of a three-part series on the impact of agricultural exports on the U.S. economy and the risks and promise for ag trade going forward. American commodity and ag trade groups are casting their net far and wide overseas to develop relationships and encourage trade with the United States.
A group of House Republicans has appealed to President-elect Donald Trump to negotiate trade agreements that open new markets for U.S. cotton farmers during his second term.
Federal and state agricultural officials are expressing optimism about future trade with India, a country with a relatively young population and a growing middle class.
The Biden administration is having success at removing barriers to U.S. ag exports despite the lack of new tariff-reducing trade agreements, according to the U.S. Trade Representative's chief ag trade negotiator, Doug McKalip.
U.S. agricultural exports must contend with a wide range of trade barriers not based in science that impede access to overseas markets, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said in its latest National Trade Estimate Report.
A former high-ranking USDA official in the Trump administration who now leads the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture voices concern that former Donald Trump's proposal to raise tariffs could hurt farmers.
USDA took a key step Thursday in rolling out its new $1.3 billion international trade initiative, the Regional Agricultural Promotion Program, and unveiled plans for trade missions next year to Vietnam, India, South Korea, Canada, Colombia and Morocco.
