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Thursday, March 06, 2025
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.
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 USDA is planning on four more in-person trade missions around the globe this year, including to the UK and Kenya, nations that the Trump administration opened up negotiations with for free trade agreements.
The new year got off to a big start for U.S. soybean trade, with sales and shipments to China totaling nearly 2 million metric tons for just the first week in January, according to the latest trade data.
U.S. small businesses that specialize in making sure you can get a glass of Chateau Lafite Rothschild with your cordon bleu are reeling from steep tariffs meant to punish Europe.
Farmers were hoping for a speedy resolution to the U.S.-China trade war, but the lack of such a resolution has sent them scrambling to come up with a new home for exports once gobbled up by China.
Mexico’s new 350,000-metric-ton quota for tariff-free pork imports is full, and none of that meat will likely be provided by U.S. producers, according to officials at USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service. The quota was briefly seen as a potential lifeline for U.S. pork exporters, who were hit last week by Mexico with a 10 percent tariff that increases to 20 percent on July 5.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 7, 2017 - Anti-hunger activists target next farm bill * USDA says it has contained bird flu outbreak * Spain could profit from U.S. bird flu
