Permanent Pivot in Trade Policy German Green Party member of the European Parliament Martin Häusling and other politicians are telling the European Commission to stand up to the threats of President Donald Trump. Many in Europe are hoping to wait out Trump with hopes of a U.S. return in 2021 to the post-WWII status quo on trade policy. However, the view of many trade policy experts in Washington is that the 2020 election is not going to send trade policy back to page 10 in the newspapers. Backed by organized labor, the Democrats have long been a protectionist party, giving very few votes in support of the trade agreements negotiated over the past two decades. Donald Trump co-opted their agenda in 2016, and he will keep playing tough...
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...
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.