Just as South African politician and human-rights leader Nelson Mandela passed away last week, global trade diplomats finished talks in Bali that could pump $1 ...
Corn flakes are one of the most popular breakfast foods in the worldand 15 years ago, Norway banned them.
Technically, its government outlawed the importati...
With the election of Brazils Roberto Azevedo as the next director-general of the World Trade Organization, its time to hope for a Nixon goes to China moment...
When President Obama nominated Michael Froman as U.S. Trade Representative last week, he cracked a joke about an old friend.
We went to law school together,...
The Obama administrations second-term shakeup will include a new top trade diplomat as the current U.S. Trade Representative, Ron Kirk, is eyeing the exit door...
President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney disagree over budgets, health care, and what to do about unrest in the Middle East. When they meet for the...
People say a picture is worth a thousand words. A photo released by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative last week is worth at least two.
Uh oh.
It...
In its just-released 2012 Trade Policy Agenda, the Obama administration took credit for recent accomplishments, such as completing a free-trade agreement with S...
I will go anywhere in the world to open new markets for American products, said President Obama last week, in his State of the Union address.
He also indic...
I have a message for President Obama: Dont mess with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
Earlier this month, the President spoke of the need to imp...
Dean Kleckner served as Chairman of Truth About Trade & Technology from 2000 2012, before the group renamed to Global Farmer Network in 2016. Prior to this he served seven two-year terms as president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Before becoming AFBF president, he was president of the Iowa Farm Bureau for ten years. He served on the American Farm Bureaus board of directors during that time.
As a strong advocate of reduced protectionism and freer trade worldwide, Sr.. Kleckner was the only farmer on the U.S. advisory team to the GATT negotiations when they began in September 1986 in Uruguay. Sr.. Kleckner served on the U.S. Trade Advisory Committee, first appointed by President Reagan, reappointed by President Bush and reappointed twice by President Clinton. In that role, he has attended World Trade Organization meetings in Canada, Singapore, Brussels, Geneva, Cancun and Hong Kong.
During his farming career, Sr.. Kleckner raised corn, soybeans and hogs on a 350 acre family farm near Rudd, Iowa.
