Davos Dirt Speaking to Bloomberg News this week at the World Economic Forum, Liu He, the top financial and economic adviser to President Xi Jinping, said that “China has stood firm against all forms of protectionism.” U.S. agricultural exports to China, which face countervailing duties and other barriers there, are down 17 percent for the first quarter of the new marketing year. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told reporters, “Many countries are good at the rhetoric of free trade, but in fact actually practice extreme protectionism.” Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the current president of the African Union, meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday. Fellow African officials hope to learn what Trump rea...
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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.