Real Trade War Tariffs applied by both the U.S. and China are staged to rise substantially tomorrow unless there is a last-minute agreement between each country’s respective trade negotiators. The trade war has had more subtle, adverse economic impacts up to this point, but they are likely to worsen substantially. Unfortunately, the more painful those are, the likelier the war is to come to an end. If the adverse impacts are not dramatic, the longer the trade war and the worse for U.S. agriculture. Beijing’s reorganization of its state-owned agribusiness giants is a case in point for the trade war. The functions of COFCO and Sinograin are being reshuffled to enable China to outcompete privately-owned western agribusinesses. At...
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...
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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.