The recent theatrics over Trade Promotion Authority suggest that our political leaders in Washington arent serious about international trade.
Amid the fight...
For the fourth time in the last three years, the WTO has rejected regulations implementing the meat mandatory country of origin law (COOL) passed by the U.S. Co...
When a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was discovered in the U.S. cattle herd in December 2003, China along with about a hundred other countries ...
The U.S. and the EU have been negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade agreement for the past two years. With two developed ...
Nobody ever wins a trade war, but the protectionists always want to try.
Their latest act of stubbornness will force American consumers to pay more at the gr...
On August 28, 2014 the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA opened a 60-day comment period on a proposed rule to allow fresh beef imports ...
The Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef has identified five global principles for defining sustainable beef and sustainable beef production practices natur...
For the second time in two years, the WTO has rejected USDAs efforts to implement the Congressionally mandated country of origin labeling (COOL) for meat. The...
At the recent World Meat Congress in Beijing, China, Chinese government officials acknowledged a shortage of about 1 million metric tons (MMT) of beef per year....
McDonalds fast food restaurants shook up the meat industry worldwide in January when it announced plans to begin purchasing sustainable beef in 2016. By its...
