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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
In this opinion piece, Steve Landsman and Laurent Giezendanner with Syngenta Group discuss the need for stricter intellectual property (IP) law enforcement.
In this opinion piece, Sam Eathington, Ph. D., of Corteva Agriscience discusses intellectual property theft and its negative impact on American competitiveness, investment in innovation and global food security.
Iowa farmers on Thursday urged members of Congress to be cautious in seeking to curb China's theft of U.S. intellectual property and unfair trade tactics, noting the nation's importance as a consumer of soybeans and other commodities.
China’s push to achieve self-sufficiency, which has incentivized the nation to purchase, and even steal, agricultural assets in other countries, could present risks to the economic and national security of the United States, warns a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
The Agriculture Department is going to take a closer look at how retailers and seed companies are interacting with producers, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says.
Chinese importers have already stopped buying U.S. wheat, soybean purchases are expected to drop even further, and the U.S. ag sector is expecting the financial pain to increase exponentially as long as the Trump administration persists in a trade war with China.
President Donald Trump today announced the U.S. will hit China with $50 billion worth of tariffs on more than 1,000 Chinese productds, taking the U.S. closer to a trade war with the Asian nation, which has threatened to hit back with tariffs on U.S. soybeans, wheat, corn and other commodities.
U.S. farmers and ranchers have a lot to gain from the ongoing trade talks with China, but even more to lose if the two countries cannot come to an agreement on protecting U.S. intellectual property.
China has agreed to increase its imports of American agriculture and energy products and to address U.S. concerns about protection of intellectual property, according to a joint U.S.-China statement released by the White House.
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