Having commented so often about U.S.-China trade relations and the ongoing negotiations, we fear we risk boring clients. However, the trade negotiations are reminiscent of the traditional “soap operas” on daytime television in that their stories never end. Every time one crisis is resolved, another arises. Recent comments from President Trump and U.S. trade officials have followed two themes: 1) there has been great progress on the key issues; and 2) considerable differences over key issues remain to be resolved. Although these may appear contradictory, both are probably accurate. There has been considerable progress and even agreement on some of the important issues, but differences do also remain. According to various press...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.