House Ways and Means Subcommittee Holds Hearing to Discuss Ag Trade
The House Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee held a hearing on Tuesday on “Expanding U.S. Agricultural Trade and Eliminating Barriers to U.S. Exports.” Much of the hearing entailed promoting...
View ArticleUSTR Chief Ag Negotiator Darci Vetter Makes Case for TPP Passage
Ambassador Darci Vetter, chief agriculture negotiator at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, said in remarks recently at the World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa, that the passage of the...
View ArticleTPP’s Fate Now “Up to Congress,” Ag Secretary Vilsack Says
In an exclusive interview with The Hagstrom Report at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia this week, USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said he believes the fate of the Trans...
View ArticleLikelihood of Ratifying TPP Now Bleak; Some Say Failure Will Dent U.S....
The Wall Street Journal said this week that the troubled 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal is threatening to become a foreign policy failure in Asia, where the U.S. loaded the...
View ArticleVietnam Announces Delay on TPP Ratification
Vietnam’s government has opted to delay ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). A government official told Reuters on Friday that Hanoi would not include ratifying TPP on the agenda for...
View Article“TPP Failure will be U.S. Loss, China’s Gain,” Says Chairman of the U.S....
If the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) falls through, China is ready to “pounce in” to engage with the 11 countries the United States has been working with in negotiating TPP, a U.S. government...
View ArticleU.S. Trade Representative Froman Says TPP Could Pass in Lame Duck Session
U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told CNBC this week in an interview that the Trans Pacific Partnership will have enough votes for ratification by Congress after the election. “If the House...
View ArticleSymbolic Gesture: Japan Ratifies Trans Pacific Partnership
Japan’s parliament, the Diet, last Friday ratified the 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership — a symbolic gesture at this point as President-Elect Donald Trump has repeatedly voiced his opposition to...
View ArticlePresident Trump Formally Ends U.S. Participation in TPP
President Trump on Monday signed an executive order formally ending the United States’ participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), following through with his long-standing campaign promise....
View ArticleTTIP Negotiations Becoming Increasingly Difficult
The European Commission said in an email late last week to the 28 European Union ambassadors that there will be no Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) before President Obama leaves...
View ArticleTPP Supporters See Opportunity to Maneuver Toward a Vote Before 2017
Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders are all openly hostile to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but supporters of TPP believe such toxicity might actually work in their favor. Whoever...
View ArticleJapanese Government Slows Down Approval Process for TPP
Japan’s government has slowed its process for approving the Trans Pacific Partnership, despite that fact that a formal debate has already begun in Japan’s national Diet. The current legislative...
View ArticleNCC and Members of U.S. Food and Ag Industry Unite to Urge Congress to Act on...
The National Chicken Council, along with more than 225 other members of the U.S. food and agriculture industry, on Monday sent a letter to Members of Congress expressing their support of the...
View ArticleNCC, and 275 Other Groups, Announce Support for TPP Encouraging Congress to...
The Trade Benefits America Coalition, of which the National Chicken Council is a member, issued the following statement yesterday by David Thomas, President of the Trade Benefits America Coalition...
View ArticleU.S. Poultry Producers Outline Possible Economic Benefits of TPP
U.S. poultry producers this week used a U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) hearing to both express support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and to highlight mixed experiences with past...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership Signed This Week in New Zealand
This week in Auckland, New Zealand, the 12 ministers representing Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, United States, and Vietnam signed...
View ArticleJapan’s Prime Minister Abe May Set Aside TPP Ratification For Now
Japan may give up ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership in its current Diet session–the national legislature of Japan–if resistance from opposition parties means it is delayed beyond the end of...
View ArticleHouse Speaker Ryan Says Vote Possible in 2016 on Trans-Pacific Partnership
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said this week that it is “very possible” that the House could vote on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) next year, which contradicts what Senate Majority Leader Mitch...
View ArticleEleven Countries, Sans the U.S., Strike a Deal on TPP
The 11 remaining member countries of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) struck a deal Tuesday, January 23 to save the multilateral trade deal. President Donald Trump withdrew from TPP as one of his...
View ArticleNCC and Members of U.S. Food and Ag Industry Unite to Urge Congress to Act on...
The National Chicken Council, along with more than 225 other members of the U.S. food and agriculture industry, on Monday sent a letter to Members of Congress expressing their support of the...
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