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U.S. Congress victory may move Pacific trade pact forward

By GFM Network News June 24, 2015

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. lawmakers approved legislation key to securing a hallmark Pacific trade deal by a comfortable margin on Wednesday, advancing President Barack Obama’s efforts to strengthen U.S. economic ties with Asia. After a six-week congressional battle including two brushes with failure, some fancy legislative footwork and myriad backroom deals to keep the

Livestock, Markets

U.S. Senate pushes Obama’s Pacific Rim trade pact forward

By GFM Network News June 23, 2015

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for “fast-track” trade negotiating authority to help him strike a Pacific Rim deal cleared a key hurdle in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, paving the way for a final vote on the legislation Wednesday. On Wednesday, the Senate was likely to vote to grant Obama the

Livestock, Markets

U.S. House win revives Obama’s Trans-Pacific trade pact

By GFM Network News June 18, 2015

Washington | Reuters — U.S. lawmakers narrowly approved legislation key to securing a hallmark Pacific trade deal on Thursday, partly reversing a defeat less than a week before, in a boost to President Barack Obama’s goal of strengthening U.S. economic ties with Asia. The House of Representatives voted 218 to 208 to give the White

Markets

Fast-track avoids ‘mistakes from our past’ on trade: Obama

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 16, 2015

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday praised a bipartisan bill that would fast-track trade deals through Congress, urging lawmakers to pass it quickly so his administration can advance a trade pact with Pacific nations. “The bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

U.S. hog farmers see ‘significant progress’ in Trans-Pacific talks

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 26, 2015

Washington | Reuters –– U.S. pork producers on Monday hailed “significant progress” in Asia-Pacific regional trade talks and urged lawmakers to give the White House authority to fast-track trade deals, a sign that a deadlock with Japan may be softening. An impasse between the U.S. and Japan, the two biggest economies in the 12-nation Trans-Pacific

Beef cattle, Hogs, Markets, Opinion

Editorial: Customers, not competitors, come first

By John Morriss September 29, 2014

Is there anyone out there who thinks it’s a good thing for Canadian agricultural representatives to join with their competition from other countries to criticize their best customers? The answer is almost certainly no, but on the other hand we didn’t hear any objections when the Canadian Pork Council did exactly that earlier this month.

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