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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, December 21, 2024
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., told reporters he.“didn’t see any new movement" at a meeting with President Biden and congressional leaders, but Biden said they agreed to continue talking.
The battle over food assistance work requirements is picking up with a new Republican proposal from Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., who plans to drop a bill today to increase the age limit for SNAP work requirements.
Spain's highly subsidized olives will be facing stiff antidumping duties after a World Trade Organization ruling favorable to U.S. growers allowed the Commerce Department to confirm the tariffs.
The California Chamber of Commerce and the Western Association of Conference Executives has jointly brought on Nick Ortiz as CalChamber vice president of local chamber relations and W.A.C.E. president and CEO, effective Feb. 27.
The World Trade Organization has confirmed the appointments of Einar Gunnarsson and Alparslan Acarsoy as trade chairs, and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., and Ranking Member David Scott, D-Ga., have announced the chairs of the House Ag subcommittees.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States isn’t being tough enough when it comes to China. While President Joe Biden has maintained the Trump administration’s tariffs on China, Pompeo says more has to be done to curb China’s unfair trade practices and theft of intellectual property.
The World Trade Organization squeaked out a win in the final hours of its summit this week in Geneva, agreeing to prohibit all of its 164 nations from refusing to provide food commodities to the World Food Program for its humanitarian efforts.
The House is set today to clear the Senate-passed Ocean Shipping Reform Act, which empowers the Federal Maritime Commission to take steps to clear port bottlenecks and reduce shipping rates.
