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Is U.S. changing how it calculates trade numbers? – news for week of Feb 20

Global Farmer NetworkFebruary 20, 2017

News items related to ag tech, biotech, trade – and perhaps some other interesting items out there related to agriculture – will be posted on this page througho...

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Changes in EU Crop Biotech Import Policy

Ross KorvesApril 30, 2015

The EU Commission has proposed to allow member countries to opt out of importing biotech crops similar to the recent provision to opt out of planting biotech cr...

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Trade Promotion Authority in the Current Session of Congress

Ross KorvesNovember 20, 2014

President Obama came back from his week of foreign policy meetings in Asia saying he was enthusiastic about promoting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free t...

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EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

Ross KorvesOctober 2, 2014

As the seventh round of negotiations on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade agreement took place, the EU Commission released a text...

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Cultivating Biotech Crops in the EU

Ross KorvesSeptember 18, 2014

After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting of biotech drops may be approved b...

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EU Biotech Decisions

Ross KorvesAugust 28, 2014

One of the challenges of crafting a new free trade agreement with the EU in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations is overcoming...

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Russian Retaliation to Sanctions

Ross KorvesAugust 13, 2014

The Russian government’s response to sanctions imposed by western governments as a consequence of Russian actions in Ukraine was to impose agricultural product ...

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Agricultural Issues Become Clearer as TTIP Talks Resume

Ross KorvesJuly 3, 2014

The sixth round of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) talks between the U.S. and the EU is set for the week of July 14-18 in Brussels, Be...

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U.S.-EU TTIP Trade Talks Heat Up

Ross KorvesMay 29, 2014

Discussions surrounding the recently completed fifth round of talks on the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership became heated as interest grou...

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An Acceptable Pathogen Reduction Treatment for the EU Poultry Market

Ross KorvesApril 3, 2014

The EU poultry meat market has been closed to U.S. producers since 1997 when the EU began blocking imports of U.S. poultry products that had been processed with...

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