Impact of the TPP on the Japanese Agri-Food Sector
Momentum on completing negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) has been slowed partly due to Japan’s concern about the impact...
Economic Research Service
COOL Needs to Go in a Different Direction
For the second time in two years, the WTO has rejected USDA’s efforts to implement the Congressionally mandated country of origin labeling (COOL) for meat. The...
USDA Trade Projections for Bulk Commodities for the Next Ten Years
Agricultural exports in any particular year are subject to the usual weather conditions that influence supply and economic conditions that drive demand. Econom...
Grain Imports in Low Income Developing Countries
When analysts discuss growing import demands for grains, they usually focus on middle income developing and developed countries with a growing middle class. A ...
Report Analyzes Chinese Pork Production and Imports
China produces roughly half of the world’s annual output of pork and imports significant volumes that can distort the relative small global pork export market. ...
NAFTA at Seventeen
The Economic Research Service of USDA has released its latest report on the effects of NAFTA on U.S. agriculture, NAFTA at 17: Full Implementation Leads to I...
The Prospects for Growth in Agricultural Trade
As the U.S. and world economies prospects for growth improve for the fourth quarter of 2009 and into 2010, a logical question is what will happen to agricultura...
NAFTA at Fifteen
The North American Free Trade Implementation Act requires biennial reports to Congress on the effects of the agreement on U.S. agriculture. The sixth report, ...
Mexican Sugar Production and Consumption
The January 1, 2008 completion of the 15-year transition under NAFTA to free trade in sugar between the U.S. and Mexico left trade watchers in both countries un...
The 2007 NAFTA Commission Meeting
The NAFTA Commission, the trade ministers of the U.S., Canada and Mexico, met in Vancouver, B.C., Canada on August 13-14. With serious trade disagreements like...