Competitive Neutrality Challenges Competitive Neutrality has a myriad of potential applications, though not all of them good. There is the routine, such as how to handle today’s announcement that Chinese agribusiness giant Cofco International plans to merge with various domestic trading and processing assets, creating a giant, partially government-owned entity to compete against western private and publicly trade companies? Meanwhile, Singapore is reportedly luring the rich to move to the city-state via subsidies and tax friendly rules. President Joe Biden is about to raise federal taxes on the rich. Why would a rich person say living in Illinois with its harsh winters, high state taxes, and poor governance and now facing higher fed...
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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.