A Trade Success Story in Rural America
There probably aren’t too many people outside of western Illinois who have even heard of the village of Annawan. But there is something very exciting happening in this community of 868 people.
 

USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today amends availability of the following credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2010. (06/28/10)

—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the Republic of Turkey
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the Southeast Asia Region
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the Republic of Korea (South Korea)
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the South America Region
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the United Mexican States (Mexico)
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the China-Hong Kong Region
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the Central American Region
—USDA Amends GSM-102 Credit Guarantees for Export Sales to the Caribbean Region

USDA Official Visits Honduras to Recognize Regional Food Security and Biotechnology Successes (06/28/10)
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service’s Administrator John Brewer will be in Honduras June 28-30 to recognize Honduras’ leadership role in implementing biotechnology and addressing food security in Central America.

USTR Ron Kirk Comments on Signing of Framework Regarding WTO Cotton Dispute

The framework averts the imposition of countermeasures by Brazil against the United States of more than $800 million this year. (06/25/10)

 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today announced that it has certified three petitions under the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Farmers Program.
—USDA Grants Assistance to U.S. Shrimp Producers in the Gulf and South Atlantic States Under Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Farmers Program (06/25/10)
—USDA Grants Assistance to Catfish Producers Under Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Farmers Program (06/25/10)
—USDA Grants Assistance to U.S. Asparagus Producers Under Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) for Farmers Program (06/25/10)

United States, Russia Reach Agreement to Resume Poultry Exports to Russia
Today United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack welcomed the announcement that the United States and Russia have reached an agreement to permit the resumption of U.S. poultry exports to Russia. (06/24/10)

— Audio, USDA Radio News: President Obama Announces Agreement with Russia on Poultry; (6/24/10 - wma, real, mp3)

China Now Unloading First U.S. Corn in 15 Years
A shipload of U.S. corn is being discharged this week in a Chinese port...the first to be accepted by China in several years.

—Audio, USDA Radio News; China Now Unloading First U.S. Corn in 15 Years (06/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)
— Audio, USDA Radio News: Corn Sale Might Signal More Sales of Other Products; (06/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)
— Audio, USDA Radio News: A Description of the Arrival of U.S. Corn in China; (06/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)

USTR Ron Kirk Comments on Trans-Pacific Partnership Talks
As the second round of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement ended in San Francisco, Calif., today, U .S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk congratulated the U.S. delegation and TPP partners on making “significant, positive” progress during this week’s talks. (06/18/10)

On Meat Trade Outlook
Audio, USDA Radio News; (06/18/10 - wma, real, mp3)

 

U.S., Brazil Agree on Framework Regarding WTO Cotton Dispute
Brazil’s Ministers reached a decision in support of a Framework regarding the Cotton dispute, which would avert the imposition of countermeasures of more than $800 million this year, including more than $560 million against U.S. exports which were scheduled to go into effect on Monday, June 21, 2010. (06/17/10)

— Audio, USDA Radio News; The Next Phase in Resolving the Brazilian Cotton Dispute (6/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)
— Audio, USDA Radio News; On Framework to Prevent Brazilian Tariffs on U.S. Goods (6/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)
— Audio, USDA Radio News; Inside the U.S.-Brazil Cotton Agreement Framework (6/23/10 - wma, real, mp3)
— Audio, USDA Radio News; Framework for Brazil Cotton Case Resolution Agreed Upon (6/21/10 - wma, real, mp3)

China Expected to Continue Increasing Soybean Imports
Audio, USDA Radio News; (06/14/10 - wma, real, mp3)
 

 

Vilsack: U.S. to Reach Out to New Japanese Ag Minister
Audio, USDA Radio News; (06/09/10 - wma, real, mp3)

First USDA Agribusiness Trade Mission to Iraq Arrives in Baghdad (06/07/10)
—Bringing U.S. Agribusiness to Iraq (USDA Radio News; 06/08/10 - wma, real, mp3)
—Actuality: On Agribusiness Trade Mission to Iraq (USDA Radio News; 06/08/10 - wma, real, mp3)
—Actuality: On Transforming Iraqi Ag Economy (USDA Radio News; 06/08/10 - wma, real, mp3)
—USDA Agribusiness Trade Mission to the Republic of Iraq Summary
—USDA Blog: USDA Head of Delegation Discusses Beginning of Trade Mission

U.S., EU Sign Agreement Designed to Settle Bananas Dispute (06/08/10)
United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced today that the United States and the European Union (EU) have signed an agreement designed to lead to settlement of a longstanding dispute over the EU's bananas trading regime.