Domestic Before Trade Deals Everyone knows that President Donald Trump is a protectionist, but he has very good company when it comes to that charge. As his Administration likes to note, the TransPacific Partnership agreement was never going to be enacted even if he did not become president. Now former Vice President Joe Biden has staked out his anti-trade position in his presidential campaign. He said this week that he will not negotiate any new trade agreements until there are first certain investments in the domestic economy. In other words, trade is not beneficial to the economy like investments in education and infrastructure. He concurrently echoed President Trump’s assertion that too many foreign trade barriers hurt American c...
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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.