Today is T-Day minus one, which is another way of saying that tomorrow, 6 July, is when the U.S. will impose 25 percent tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports as punishment for unfair trading practices. China will retaliate with 25 percent tariffs on a similar amount of imports from the U.S. that include a variety of U.S. agricultural products, most importantly soybeans. The Trump administration has threatened more tariffs on Chinese imports if China goes through, as it certainly will, with its retaliation. Thus, the trade war will be off and running. The impact of all this on soybean prices has been stark. With Chinese demand vanishing, November soybean futures have fallen more than $2.00/bushel in the last month. Meanwhile, as C...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.