Danger of Corn Dispute Delay At the late March hearing before the Finance Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) pressed USTR Katherine Tai not to delay taking formal action against Mexico for its proposed ban on GMO corn imports. She made no specific commitment and now the earliest date for filing a formal dispute settlement case under the USMCA has come and passed. The agency says it has no imminent plans to file a case. Academics at Ohio State University issued a report declaring confidence the U.S. would win the case should it proceed, but the formal process takes around eight and a half months to complete. This means that any final resolution would occur long after seed companies would need to be switching their production plans t...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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