Purchases are Real China's Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer spoke last night, and the result is bullish the market. While both sides recommitted to the Phase One trade deal the bullishness is the result of stepped up Chinese purchasing and what appears to be a real commitment to it. Reuters quotes an unnamed agricultural trader from a China state-owned company saying, “they think we are going to keep buying from the U.S., at least before the election takes place. And we will." The phone call also involved China’s efforts on structural changes such as protecting intellectual property rights and ending impediments and forced technology transfers but it is the purchasing of U.S.-made goods that i...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.