Trade Without Industry If the Biden Administration were doing industry’s bidding, it would be negotiating trade agreements with real increases in market access. However, the lack of market access talks did not prevent Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Washington) from repeating the usual complaint from progressives that trade talks are tilted in favor of industry. Jayapal is Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, so she is among the most anti-capitalist of politicians. With a lean toward Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and other controversial concepts, someone needs to ask her if trade talks were not about industry, what would they be about? Content Moderation Until a federal judge ordered the Biden Administration to stop, its officials...
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...
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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.