…Excludes cider 2Excludes bulk imports bottled in U.S. 3Estimated retail value includes markups by wholesalers, retailers and restaurateurs. WINE SALES IN THE U.S. (Wine shipments in millions of 9-liter…
Secretary Perdue Announces Arrival of First Shipment of U.S. Beef to Brazil
…market. Brazil closed its market to imports of U.S. fresh beef in 2003 over concerns about bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Since then, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural…
Response to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s paper on Clean Fuel Standard
…reduce the reliance on petroleum imports and lower the price of gasoline for consumers. But it needs to be done right, based on sound science and consumer choice. We are…
Rabobank Finds Pork Export Market Projections Favorable
…is keeping a close eye on what’s going on with Chinese pork imports, both now and in the months ahead. Rabobank analysts report that “steady, regulatory-driven relocation of pork production…
Commerce Department to End Mexican Sugar Dumping
…The department will impose duties on Mexican sugar imports beginning on June 5, unless the two countries can come to an agreement. Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar…
Minnesota Court Delays Syngenta Lawsuit Hearing
…a genetically engineered corn variety before China had approved it for imports, thereby causing farmers economic harm. The case was supposed to go to trial last week in a Minnesota…
Brazil Looking at Tariffs on U.S. Ethanol Imports
Reuters says the Brazilian Ag Minister is asking the country’s Foreign Trade Council to impose tariffs on U.S. ethanol imports after a recent surge in shipments coming in from America….
Canada/Mexico Doing NAFTA Renegotiations “Together”
…diversify, especially if NAFTA negotiations fall apart. Last year, 98 percent of Mexico’s corn imports came from the United States, roughly $3.25 billion dollars worth of business for American farmers….
Agri View: China and Beef Exports
…U.S. beef imports. Well, that could change. They are not ready yet but they gave indications they may be willing to negotiate. Why is this important? China consumes over 12…
International Trade and Deforestation: Potential Policy Effects via a Global Economic Model
…increased by expanding onto previously cleared cropland or pasture, rather than by contributing immediately to further deforestation. U.S. imports of palm oil are small relative to global production, and the…
Tight Fuel Ethanol Supplies in Brazil Boost U.S. Exports
U.S. Fuel Ethanol exports are up sharply in the current marketing year, thanks in part to tighter fuel supplies in Brazil, which are resulting in higher U.S. imports. The change…
U.S. Milk Exports to Mexico at Risk
…two months of 2017, Mexico increased its imports of skim milk powder from the European Union by 122 percent over last year. Mexico has also been exploring talks with dairy…
Bill Introduced to Reform Biodiesel Tax Credit
…would ensure that the tax credit would incentivize domestic production and taxpayers wouldn’t be subsidizing imported fuel. Biofuel imports have increased from 510 million gallons in 2014 to approximately one…
Productivity Growth and the Revival of Russian Agriculture
…economy in the early 1990s but has rebounded strongly since the late 1990s. The production increase contributed to Russia reducing its large imports of meat and other livestock products and…