Momentum on completing negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agreement (FTA) has been slowed partly due to Japans concern about the impact...
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...
Agricultural exports in any particular year are subject to the usual weather conditions that influence supply and economic conditions that drive demand. Econom...
When analysts discuss growing import demands for grains, they usually focus on middle income developing and developed countries with a growing middle class. A ...
China produces roughly half of the worlds annual output of pork and imports significant volumes that can distort the relative small global pork export market....
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...
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...
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, ...
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 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...