Transatlantic Duality EU Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis is in Washington this week and had some notable messages. For one, he said that the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism, which restricts trade, is WTO legal, while subsidies that only indirectly affect trade are not. Then he said the EU-U.S. Trade and Technology Council needs more trade results such as making U.S. critical minerals subsidies available to support auto workers in the EU. Separately, legislators on Capitol Hill are coalescing around their own version of taxing imports produced with more pollution than domestic counterparts. Republicans support the measure for economic reasons while Democrats support it for environmental purposes. No Ag for...
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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Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.