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(In Trade)
July 19, 2017
July 19, 2017
Conaway: “agriculture needs to keep its foot on the gas to ensure their interests are known and reflected in the agreement.”
(In Trade)
July 13, 2017
July 13, 2017
Stephen Censky has served as CEO of the trade association for 21 years.
(Daily News)
July 13, 2017
July 13, 2017
A Thursday Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on the Farm Bill and its agricultural export promotion programs turned into a platform for senators and members of the agricultural industry to voice their concerns over a slew of trade issues including the NAFTA renegotiation, the Commerce Department's Section 232 steel investigation and the status of U.S. competitiveness in the Asia-Pacific.
(In Trade)
July 11, 2017
July 11, 2017
Representatives from four agri-business representatives and one trade group are slated to testify during the trade-themed hearing.
(In Trade)
July 11, 2017
July 11, 2017
“Consider the consequences to the rest of the U.S. economy and avoid igniting a trade war through new restrictions on steel or aluminum trade.”
(In Trade)
June 28, 2017
June 28, 2017
Food & Water Watch says allowing the imports is “yet another example of the USDA prioritizing trade over public health.”
(In Trade)
June 26, 2017
June 26, 2017
Perdue will ceremonially cut a Nebraska Prime rib and participate in a cooking demonstration to celebrate the first U.S. beef exports to China in 13 years.
(In Trade)
June 22, 2017
June 22, 2017
Perdue: “Although international trade is an important part of what we do, my first priority is to protect American consumers.”
(Daily News)
June 20, 2017
June 20, 2017
U.S. cattle groups are asking a U.S. district court to vacate the Agriculture Department's beef-labeling regulations because they do not mandate that all imported beef labels show countries of origin, which the groups claim is a violation of U.S. law.
(In Trade)
June 20, 2017
June 20, 2017
“What will take place in the negotiations, we will see. The table has not been set yet. When it is we'll deal with that.”
(In Trade)
June 16, 2017
June 16, 2017
Jason Hafemeister was the lead agriculture negotiator for the World Trade Organization's Doha round.
(In Trade)
June 16, 2017
June 16, 2017
The U.S. Dairy Export Council said in the MOU will boost access for more than 200 U.S. exporters right away and allow for more entrants later.
(Text Document)
June 15, 2017
June 15, 2017
(Daily News)
June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017
According to multiple sources, the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service is set to publish on Friday a proposed amendment to a rule that will allow China to export poultry products to the U.S. from birds slaughtered in China, a move the U.S. committed to as part of the 100-day plan the Trump administration reached with China.
(Daily News)
June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017
After the U.S. and Mexico last week concluded negotiations on sugar “agreements in principle” that will replace 2014 suspension deals, the Commerce Department on Wednesday published draft amendments and announced a public comment period ending on June 21 -- with the goal of signing the deals by June 30.
(In Trade)
June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Tuesday told Senate appropriators he does not believe the sugar deal that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross struck with Mexico last week features a “loophole,” as the U.S. sugar industry claims.
(Daily News)
June 14, 2017
June 14, 2017
Two Democratic senators on Tuesday said they hope a traceability requirement U.S. meat packers must meet to ship beef to China will lead to practices that will allow the U.S. to re-implement a country-of-origin labeling law that is compliant with World Trade Organization rules.
(Daily News)
June 13, 2017
June 13, 2017
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Tuesday assured Senate appropriators the Canadian dairy industry's milk pricing scheme will be key to the U.S. approach to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.
(In Trade)
June 12, 2017
June 12, 2017
U.S. Meat Export Federation predicts “a period of adjustment for the U.S. industry,”
(Daily News)
June 12, 2017
June 12, 2017
The Trump administration has finalized a protocol between the United States and China laying out standards for U.S. beef exports to China, another step in following through on the initial outcomes of the bilateral 100-day action plan struck in April that moves U.S. producers closer to selling beef to Beijing for the first time since 2003.