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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Former U.S. Trade Representative and trade policy architect Robert Lighthizer has so far been overlooked for key economic policy roles — a move some who worked closely with him say could hamper Trump's trade policymaking.
President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose tariffs on U.S. trade partners is worrisome, the head of the Agricultural Retailers Association told his group’s annual conference in Houston last week.
Seventy-seven Nobel laureates in medicine, economics, physics and chemistry are urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The second part 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: U.S. ag exports to China are falling year after year following a spike driven by the Phase One agreement. Brazil, meanwhile, is ramping up its trading relationship with China.
President-elect Donald Trump insists that tariffs he’s thinking of imposing on trading partners would cost Americans “nothing.” But on Sunday he said he couldn’t guarantee that outcome.
The European Union and the Mercosur countries have concluded negotiations on a long-anticipated trade deal that would cut tariffs and reduce trade barriers on a slate of agriculture products.
President-elect Donald Trump is bringing China hawk Peter Navarro back to the White House as a top trade adviser, adding to a trade team that features a mix of Wall Street veterans and protectionist policy specialists. In other words, the trade team for Trump’s second term looks a lot like the first.
Peter Navarro will return to the White House in President-elect Donald Trump’s second term as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, Trump announced on Wednesday.
Democrats on the House Ag Committee are starting to line up behind the candidates seeking to be the panel’s ranking member. Reps. Angie Craig, D-Minn., and Jim Costa, D-Calif., are challenging Rep. David Scott, D-Ga., for the minority’s top spot.
The European Union is preparing a list of American goods to hit with retaliatory tariffs after the U.S failed to comply with a World Trade Organization dispute panel regarding its tariffs on olives from Spain -- a case that puts the WTO at odds with U.S. law and the ways the country protects its agriculture producers.
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