USW Report Details Value of Trade Promotion Authority, Free Trade Agreements
By Shelbi Knisley, USW Director of Trade Policy Last week, U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) submitted comments to the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) on the importance of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) legislation to U.S. wheat producers. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) describes TPA this way: “Since 1974, Congress has enacted TPA […]
U.S. Wheat Associates Submits Comments on International Trade Barriers to USTR
By Shelbi Knisley, USW Director of Trade Policy Last week U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) submitted comments to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) for the annual National Trade Estimates (NTE) report. The NTE report allows U.S. industry organizations to highlight and comment on trade barriers impacting their trade opportunities to the U.S. […]
Philippines Government Extends Anti-Dumping Duties on Imported Turkish Flour
By Joe Sowers, USW Regional Vice President for Philippines and Korea U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) is very pleased that the Tariff Commission of the Republic of the Philippines has extended anti-dumping duties on imports of wheat flour originating and exported from the Republic of Turkey until 2023. The commission’s ruling, announced Sept. 9, 2020, extended […]
USW Transportation Group Supports Proposed Change in Rail Rate Review
By Claire Hutchins, USW Market Analyst U.S. railroads are a crucial part of the most efficient grain supply system in the world. The rail system fulfills an essential logistical function that neither grain handlers nor farmers can perform on their own. Yet rail rates and charges paid by wheat shippers make up a large portion […]
U.S. Contests Chinese Programs that Create Burdensome Wheat Stocks
By Dalton Henry, USW Vice President of Policy The dispute between the Chinese and U.S. government over wheat production subsidies continues. Late last month, the U.S. government officially challenged China’s purported compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute decision that found China spent billions more on agricultural subsidies than their WTO membership allowed. That […]
U.S. Wheat Associates Provides Comments on U.S.-Kenya Trade Negotiations
By Shelbi Knisley, Director of Trade Policy U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) supports free trade through multilateral, regional and bilateral trade agreements. USW works closely with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Services (FAS) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to ensure favorable terms for wheat exports in all trade negotiations. An opportunity to do […]
Effects of 1980 Grain Embargo Echo Through the Years
By Vince Peterson, USW President As a new decade and a new future for wheat export market development dawned in January 1980, the urgency facing the wheat-producer boards of both Great Plains Wheat and Western Wheat Associates could not have been much greater. They were under the strain of discussions and negotiations for months in […]
India Invokes WTO “Peace Clause” with Implications for Global Wheat Trade
By Shelbi Knisley, USW Director of Trade Policy India has invoked the “peace clause” on its domestic agricultural support limits for rice, by notifying the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it has breached its support limits. By claiming its subsidies are part of its public stocks program for food security, invoking the “peace clause” cannot […]
USMCA Moving Closer to Reality
By Dalton Henry, USW Vice President of Policy The U.S., Mexico, Canada Agreement (USMCA) is moving steadily, if somewhat slowly, to becoming an implemented trade treaty. Mexico’s government first ratified the agreement in June 2019. At the request of the U.S. House of Representatives, the agreement was revised and signed again by all three countries […]
An Invitation to a Stronger Relationship with Mexico’s Milling and Wheat Foods Industries
By Vince Peterson, USW President Today, I had the unique privilege to accept an invitation to the White House to represent U.S. wheat farmers, our state wheat commission members and U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) as President Donald Trump signs implementing legislation for the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) into U.S. law (that’s my viewpoint at the ceremony […]