Tariff “Policy Shock” Is Real and Destructive
The pre-pandemic trade wars finally have a price tag for American agriculture: $27 billion.
That’s how much export income we lost from the middle of 2018 to th...
Trade Agreements
The World Needs Trade Leadership Now
Remember the World Trade Organization?
Its members were scheduled to gather in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago, in what Reuters called “a meeting widely seen...
Thankful for the Mentorship of Clayton Yeutter
Thirty-five years ago, around Thanksgiving, Clayton Yeutter was focused on using American trade laws to negotiate on behalf of the United States for the Urugua...
The Handshake
I haven't shaken the hand of a stranger, or a friend for that matter, in more than a year, and neither have a lot of other Canadians.
This may not seem like a ...
Farmers Want to Support the Next US Trade Representative
The confirmation hearings for President Biden's top trade diplomat probably won't begin until next month, but Katherine Tai already is giving us a glimpse of wh...
African Continental Free Trade Area: The Right Move for Africa
Africa is a big and diverse continent, but now the 1.2 billion of us who live here are united under a free-trade agreement that went into formal effect on Janua...
Tom Vilsack's Encore Performance at USDA Can Be Good for American Farmers
Call it an encore performance: Tom Vilsack will return to the United States Department of Agriculture.
President-elect Joe Biden announced last week that Vilsa...
Leadership Required from the US President
Joe Biden has promised to be "a president for all Americans."
This obviously includes farmers, who are often lumped together politically but in fact are a diver...
A New Trade Deal Is A Vital Economic Opportunity That Must Not Be Missed
Trade talks between the United Kingdom and the European Union are "deadlocked," according to the Associated Press. Difficult negotiations always involve brinkma...
Celebrating the Freedom to Trade
I once touched the Liberty Bell.
It was a long time ago: I was seven or eight years old and my mother had taken me to Philadelphia to see the sights. Although ...