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...
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 ...
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 ...
Last month, officials from the U.S. Trade Representatives (USTR) Office were again at the WTO in Geneva arguing that U.S. mandatory country-of-origin-labeling ...
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of USDA has issued a final rule that will align the agencys import regulations for bovine spongiform enc...
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...
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...
The U.S. supported Russias efforts to achieve WTO membership because the integration of Russia into the WTO system would require it to accept established, enfo...
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 ...
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...
