With a renegotiation of NAFTA high on the incoming Trump administration’s agenda, a new Commerce Department investigation may tee up sugar as one of the first sectors to be discussed. However, it will be within the context of a vastly changing market for sugar in the U.S. than has existed for the past 20 years.Since NAFTA was passed in 1993, one of the most contentious sectors in its implementation has been sugar and sweeteners. This includes imports of Mexican sugar into the U.S. and exports of U.S. high fructose corn sweetener to Mexico. Sweetener trade has been subject to many side agreements with the most recent one executed in 2014, which limits refined sugar into the United States. That year, the U.S. sugar industry filed antidumping...
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A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
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From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.