California farmers invest water to feed people
The worst thing about California’s drought is the suffering it has put on ordinary people. In many places, drinking wells have dried up. The crisis is so severe...
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It’s Elementary: Data shows that free trade improves our quality of life
If Sherlock Holmes were to share an insight, you’d pay attention, right? That’s what I would do. Dr. Watson, the famous detective’s longtime assistant, would...
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...
TPA Now
Workers in Oregon are about to discover what it’s like to live in a world without international trade. Since last month, two major shipping companies have an...
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...
Fifteen Years of “Protesting the Protests” Against Free Trade
The public protests over recent grand-jury decisions have brought to mind an event whose 15th anniversary has just passed: the so-called “Battle in Seattle” ove...
Trade Creates a World Primed for Peace
War dominates the news these days, from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to the battles splitting the Israelis and Palestinians. Last weekend, as Pope Fr...
Dow Enlist Herbicide Addresses Public Policy Need
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register Enlist Duo herbicide for Dow AgroS...
Another Push for the Doha Round of Trade Policy Talks
The WTO Trade Ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia last December directed the WTO Director-General Roberto Azevedo to prepare by this coming December a clearly ...
Resolution of the Brazilian WTO Export Credit/Farm Program Case
Ten years ago this coming September a WTO dispute resolution panel ruled that the U.S. had not honored its WTO commitments on agricultural export credit program...