Janusz Wojciechowski is an agricultural policy veteran but he may now wonder why he sought to become the EU’s Agriculture Commissioner-designate. In his confirmation hearing before the European Parliament’s Committee on Agriculture he faced the whole panoply of conflicting political demands for the agriculture sector. Like any prospective candidate, he tried to sound agreeable and amenable to various demands by members of the European Parliament (MEP’s) but instead was accused of being unprepared and lacking answers. It is unlikely that Wojciechowski failed to grasp the issues but instead understood that there is no way to reconcile the multiplicity of competing demands. Some members of Parliament want trade agreements th...
A federal appeals court paused a USITC ruling against President Trump’s use of Section 122 to impose 10-percent global tariffs. A bipartisan group of 80 House members asked USTR to investigate specialty crop imports from Mexico for unfair trade practices. India notified the WT...
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.