Posted December 18, 2013
Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, will lead a team
of U.S. officials and leaders of the farm industry in annual trade talks with
China next week in Beijing, according to a Reuters article available here.
Recent
rejection of U.S. corn shipments will be among the topics discussed. The United States is the largest exporter of
corn worldwide and China is the third largest importer of U.S. corn.
Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade
Representative Michael Froman will also attend the U.S.-China Joint Commission
on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), according to an Agri-Pulse article available here.
Vilsack said, “America’s farmers and ranchers are
extremely productive and are ready to build on five years of record U.S.
agricultural exports.”
USDA statistics show the U.S. “exported $110 billion of
goods to China in 2012, almost six times the value of shipments in 2000.”
For more information on agricultural trade, please
visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website here.
