Farmers Dont Want Aid Programs We Want Trade Opportunities
The Department of Agriculture has announced that it will spend $20 million to buy cheese from dairy farmers. The purpose of the purchase, according to an August...
Trans Pacific Partnership
Making A Best-Case Pivot To Trade Scenario for Trump
Donald Trump sounds like a protectionist. In his speech to the New York Economic Club last week, he condemned these terrible trade deals, by which he meant mo...
A Pro-Trade Political Choice
The 2016 U.S. presidential election presents voters with an important choicebut on an issue that matters dearly to farmers and ranchers, it appears on first gl...
Trade Demands Our Best and Makes Us Better
Trade demands our best and that makes us better.
It makes us better producers because we seize more opportunities. It makes us better consumers because we en...
When Trump and Clinton Talk Bad About Trade, Silence is Not Golden
Ive never seen American politicians as hostile to free trade as they are right now.
Weve witnessed spats of protectionism before, but it seems like todays...
A New Generation in Vietnam Looks to the Future and Supports TPP
Half a century ago, my country was at war with America. For two decades, a brutal conflict ravaged both the United States and Vietnam. I lost my grandparents in...
Presidential Protectionism
America is about to go protectionist. Now Im scared.
At least it looks that way after the elections on Tuesday, when the front-running presidential candida...
The Trans Pacific Partnership will be Good for New Zealand
It took five years of intense negotiations and political controversyand last week, trade diplomats finally gathered in New Zealand to sign the Trans-Pacific Pa...
Iowas Raucous Trade Caucus
Nobody knows who will win the Iowa caucuses on Monday, but judging from the latest polls, it looks like the top finishers in both parties will be trade protecti...
TPP is Secret No More
The secret is out: The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a good deal for the United States.
Want to read it for yourself? The full text of this proposed 12-nation...