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NAFTA rewrite, Kenyan farmers, China food production, and more – news for week of May 22

Global Farmer NetworkMay 22, 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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Tracing Origin of U.S. Beef for the Chinese Market

Ross KorvesMay 21, 2015

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 ...

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Agricultural Trade after Two Years with the Korea-U.S. FTA

Ross KorvesMarch 20, 2014

The Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has been in force for two years. That is too short a time to declare it a success or a failure for U.S. agricultural ...

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Canadian and Mexican COOL Case Again at the WTO

Ross KorvesMarch 6, 2014

Last month, officials from the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) Office were again at the WTO in Geneva arguing that U.S. mandatory country-of-origin-labeling ...

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New U.S. BSE Rule Conforms with International Standards

Ross KorvesNovember 7, 2013

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA has issued a final rule that will align the agency’s import regulations for bovine spongiform enc...

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Regulatory Convergence in the TTIP

Ross KorvesOctober 10, 2013

The second round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) free trade agreement (FTA) between the EU and the U.S. were postpo...

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Harmonizing Government Regulations for Trade

Ross KorvesAugust 22, 2013

The U.S.-EU Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade negotiations have a goal of reducing the ‘behind the border’ non-tariff barriers that slow the...

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Russia and WTO SPS Commitments

Ross KorvesJune 27, 2013

The U.S. supported Russia’s efforts to achieve WTO membership because the integration of Russia into the WTO system would require it to accept established, enfo...

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President Obama’s Trade Policy Agenda

Ross KorvesMarch 6, 2013

Section 163 of the Trade Act of 1974 requires the President to report yearly to Congress on his trade policy agenda. These are usually rather boring reading of ...

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Canadian Hog Subsidies and the Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks

Ross KorvesJuly 19, 2012

Agricultural production and trade between the U.S. and Canada are playing a much bigger role than expected in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) free trade agr...

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Trade

Three Voices. One Message. Ratify USMCA Now.

Farmer’s Caught Between Unenforced Trade Agreements and Political Gamemanship

A New Day Dawning for the U.S. and “Land of the Rising Sun”

Technology

California Can Keep the Water Flowing

Item of Interest: Let’s trust African scientists in war on hunger

Sharing A GM Technology Testimony From India to Uganda