Comprehensive versus Selective There continues to be a wide gulf between Brussels and Washington over what will be included in negotiating efforts for a new trade agreement. EU officials have said they excluded agriculture because the U.S. refused to include government procurement. Now they say that Mr. Trump wants quick results and that is impossible to achieve if agriculture is included. The White House reportedly did not want to talk about autos, but now automakers are insisting that harmonization of their sector’s transatlantic safety standards should be included. When the U.S. Trade Representative’s office asked what should be included in trade negotiations with Japan, sectors like e-commerce and services testified their...
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Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.