…swing seats. The type of member that will fill the swing seats is determined by the ratio of domestic avocado production to imports. Since 2006, all three swing seats have…
Ethanol Industry Wants Brazil Status Suspended
…against Brazil because of its “protectionist and market-distorting actions in implementing a Tariff Rate Quota on American ethanol imports.” The Renewable Fuels Association, Growth Energy, and the U.S. Grains Council…
New Senate Hold on Ag Trade Nominee
…protecting U.S. farmers from cheaper Mexican imports. Growers in the southeastern U.S. support the proposal. Flake argues that the move would raise the cost of production, reduce the selection of…
China Online Mall To Buy Large Amounts of Beef and Pork
…in China and the country is the world’s fastest growing overseas market for beef, following the resumption of American imports earlier this year. China is the world’s largest producer, consumer,…
NAFTA Withdrawal Would Not Lower Deficit With Mexico
…Organization. In order to join the WTO, each country had to agree to limit its tariffs to a certain level. The average U.S. tariff on imports from non-FTA countries is…
China Pork Imports to Increase
Rabobank expects China to increase its pork imports through the last few months of the year. A new report by Rabobank suggests a stronger pricing trend, as the major importing…
U.S., Japan, Planning Another Trade Meeting
…its safeguard mechanism on frozen U.S. beef imports to shorten review periods and allow importers to voluntarily lower import volumes to prevent tariffs from automatically kicking in. Japan is currently…
Britain Could Join NAFTA If Brexit Deal Fails
…farm could be cut in half after Brexit. In 2014, the U.K. was reported to rely on the EU for 27 percent of its food imports. Just four percent of…
China Imports More U.S. Trash than Ag Products
China imports more U.S. trash than agricultural commodities, but that could soon change. China earlier this year filed a notice with the World Trade Organization about its plans to limit…
Japan Tariff Reduced U.S. Beef Exports
…from 38.5 percent to 50 percent of the Japanese market, to protect domestic producers. Meat industry publication Meatingplace reports Japan’s frozen beef imports from the U.S. were 4,317 metric tons…
Brazil Says U.S. Ban on Brazilian Beef May End in October
…America ends the ban. The prediction on the end of the ban came after Washington D.C. informed Brazil it would allow thermprocessed beef imports to resume from five beef plants…
Hurricanes Devastate Puerto Rico Agriculture
…and citrus fruits. However, that changed after World War II. Puerto Rico now imports about 85 percent of its food, and its food imports are expected to rise drastically. From…
Rice Growers Eager to Enter Chinese Market
…imports. Since 2013 China has been the largest importer of rice, taking in close to five million tons last year. “This is the first new commercial market that we have…
Trade Mission to Brazil Affect Ethanol Import Tariff?
An ethanol industry official hopes this week’s USDA-led trade mission to Brazil will convince the country’s leaders to reverse a renewed tariff on ethanol imports. Growth Energy’s Chris Bliley does…