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The top USDA trade official put the odds of a deal at “better than 50 percent.”
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro pledged to implement the TRQ at a March meeting with President Trump.
China’s move follows a USDA decision to permit imports of poultry products from birds slaughtered in China.
The Trump administration is “picking winners and losers” with its trade assistance, the senators contend.
“Mexico agreed to allow full potato access for avocado access. Unfortunately, Mexico has failed to honor its obligation.”
“If we get trade restored with China, that doesn’t mean we’re going back to what it was back in 2016-17.”
“We can’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said.
The top trade official at the Agriculture Department told farmers on Monday that he expected a deal in principle with Japan, announced by the president last month, would “go live” around Jan. 1.
“As the top exporter of commodity soybeans to Germany, the U.S. will likely encounter a decrease in soy demand from the German pork sector in the near term.”
“Without that, our industry stands to lose $1.3 billion in exports over a decade, costing dairy farmers $1.7 billion in farm income.”
“To all of the farmers who remain silent in the face of Donald Trump’s disastrous trade policies and incessant lies: I urge you to stop waiting for a bailout and denounce this president for the con man he is.”
The EU’s biotech approval process has long been a trade irritant for the U.S.
President Trump is holding China accountable for its failure to deliver on promised agricultural purchases as the two sides resume talks, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Tuesday.
“I’m concerned that you are once again not being honest with American farmers,” Baldwin said in a letter to Trump.
World Trade Organization members pressed the U.S. this week on a recently announced second round of aid for farmers affected by trade disruptions as the U.S. outlined its agriculture expenditures for 2018 and 2019.
The U.S. is hopeful gene editing technology will face an easier path in the EU than genetically modified food has, McKinney said.
The Japanese trade minister refuted U.S. officials this week, saying, “there will be no partial agreement. It will be a package agreement.”
Farmers dealing with low commodity prices, trade tensions with China and rampant flooding need more markets to sell their products, American Farm Bureau Federation says.
World Trade Organization members want to know how the U.S. will calculate payment amounts for a $16 billion trade mitigation package announced last month, as well as how the support will be notified to the WTO and whether it will breach U.S. commitments.
Members of the House livestock and foreign agriculture subcommittee pressed top administration agricultural trade officials Gregg Doud and Ted McKinney on Tuesday about how to ensure increased market access for U.S. agriculture and address the market losses stemming from the ongoing dispute with China.