2018 Global Farmer Roundtable - Atsumi Goto from Japan
The 2018 Global Farmer Roundtable is scheduled forOct 16-17 in Des Moines, Iowa coinciding with the week of the World Food Prize Borlaug Dialogue and Interna...
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Trans Pacific Partnership is a Once-in-a-Generation Opportunity
The Trans Pacific Partnership is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to give the U.S. economy a big boost.
By wiping out 18,000 taxes slapped on products as t...
The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade
The U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) meeting in Beijing on December 19-20 was the main annual event for addressing bilateral trade issue...
Hawaiis Biotech Papayas Hold a Lesson for America
A new supply of fresh papayas from Hawaii will reach grocery-store shelves in Japan this year and consumers have biotechnology to thank for it.
The first Ra...
Increased U.S. Access to Japanese Beef Market
The Japanese government appears to be preparing to open their domestic beef market to products from U.S. animals 30 months old or less, up from the current 2...
Japan, China and South Korea Accelerate Trade Discussions
Government leaders of Japan, China and South Korea met on May 21-22 in Japan to accelerate discussions on a framework for a trade agreement among the three c...
A Farmer's Hope for Japan
The year was 1959. The culprit was Super Typhoon Vera, the worst storm to slam the island nation in recorded history. It crashed into Japan’s southea...
The Japanese Earthquake and Agricultural Trade
The earthquake and associated tsunami have had an impact on Japan’s agricultural production and food import capacity, but wide spread damage appears to...
Could Japan support a 'Tariff Lift'?
After the ill-fated G20 meeting in Seoul, where President Obama botched an opportunity to secure an attractive free-trade deal, Kati Suominen of the German...
The Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks Grow
The eight country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks that began seven months ago were designed with expectations ofexpanding to more countries before thei...