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...
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 (JCCT) meeting in Beijing on December 19-20 was the main annual event for addressing bilateral trade issue...
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...
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...
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...
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 earthquake and associated tsunami have had an impact on Japan’s agricultural production and food import capacity, but wide spread damage appears to...
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 eight country Trans-Pacific Partnership trade talks that began seven months ago were designed with expectations ofexpanding to more countries before thei...