Tracing Origin of U.S. Beef for the Chinese Market
When a case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) was discovered in the U.S. cattle herd in December 2003, China along with about a hundred other countries ...
Foreign Agricultural Service
Argentine Government Policy Drives Soybean Market
Many participants in the world soybean market see supplies from the three largest producing countries, the U.S., Brazil and Argentina, as being equally driven b...
Wheat and Rice and Food Security
Rice and wheat are food staples for most of the world and remain critical for food security, even though most of the public policy issues in agricultural trade ...
Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza and Trade
An international trade protocol has been developed to handle situations of disease in livestock and poultry in a major exporting country. Now that highly patho...
Economic Integration of the U.S. and Mexican Broiler Markets
Free trade of U.S. feed products and poultry from the U.S. to Mexico has allowed Mexican producers and consumers to benefit from lower feed costs and lower reta...
Agricultural Subsidies and a WTO Doha Talks Restart
U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Michael Froman recently acknowledged to the Senate Finance Committee that the U.S. could challenge Chinese cotton subsidies at ...
U.S. Dairy Prices and World Trade
The average all-milk price received by U.S. farmers for 2014 according to USDA was a record high of $23.97 per hundredweight (CWT), almost 20 percent higher tha...
Argentine Beef Imports to the U.S.
On August 28, 2014 the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA opened a 60-day comment period on a proposed rule to allow fresh beef imports ...
Sugar from Mexico
Last week the Department of Commerce assessed preliminary import duties of up to 17.01 percent on sugar entering from Mexico after the department found the Mexi...
China Seeks More Imported Beef
At the recent World Meat Congress in Beijing, China, Chinese government officials acknowledged a shortage of about 1 million metric tons (MMT) of beef per year....