Trade News 2008

August

• Costa Rica, Belize, Qatar And Ghana Join Nations For Full Market Access Of U.S. Beef (08/20/08)

July

• Schafer: Doha Round Is At An Impasse Not A Collapse (USDA Radio News; 07/29/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Statement from Ambassador Susan C. Schwab, U.S. Trade Representative on the Suspension of WTO Doha Round Trade Negotiations (07/29/08; .pdf)
• Revised Texts On Doha Round As Talks Progress (USDA Radio News; 07/28/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Latest Doha Round Talks Reach Critical Point (USDA Radio News; 07/23/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• WTO Breaks Into Smaller Groups To Advance Doha Round  (USDA Radio News; 07/23/08 - real, mp3,wave)
• U.S. Makes Offer During Latest Doha Round Talks (USDA Radio News; 07/22/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Latest U.S. Doha Round Offer And Farm Bill (USDA Radio News; 07/22/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• High Food Prices and the Doha Development Agenda (USDA Radio News; 07/21/08 - real, mp3, wave)
  — U.S. Doha Delegation Making Rounds With WTO Member Nations (USDA Radio News; 07/21/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Schafer On Progress in The Doha Round (USDA Radio News; 07/18/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• U.S. And WTO Members Reviewing Revised Doha Round Texts (USDA Radio News; 07/11/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Revised Ag Negotiating Text To Be Presented Soon To WTO  (USDA Radio News; 07/08/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• July A Critical Month For Doha Round Progress (USDA Radio News; 07/02/08 - real, mp3, wave)

June

• U.S. Beef Trade With South Korea Set To Resume Thursday (USDA Radio News; 06/25/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• USDA Signs Agreement With Philippines On Agricultural Cooperation (06/24/08)
• Korean beef importers and U.S. exporters have reached a commercial understanding that only U.S. beef from cattle under 30-months of age will be shipped to Korea (06/21/08;.pdf)
• South Korea Delays U.S. Beef Trade Again (USDA Radio News; 06/03/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• WTO Cotton Ruling Remains In Place (USDA Radio News; 06/03/08 - real, mp3, wave)

May

• Record $108.5 Billion Agricultural Exports Forecast For 2008 (05/30/08)
• Available Soon: Revised World Trade Organization Draft Ag Modalities Text (USDA Radio News; 05/14/08 - real, mp3, wave)
  — More on the Upcoming Revised Draft of WTO Negotiations (USDA Radio News; 05/14/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• South Korea To Delay Full U.S. Beef Trade (USDA Radio News; 05/14/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Improved Guidelines for Potato Pest Keeps Border Open to Trade (USDA Radio News; 05/14/08 - real, mp3, wave)
  — USDA and CFIA Revise Guidelines for the Movement of Potatoes Between the United States and Canada (05/05/08)
• Statement by USTR Schwab on Recent Developments in Korea (U.S. Trade Representative, 05/12/08)
• Export Restrictions Fueling Dramatic Rise in Rice Prices (USDA Radio News; 05/12/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Exports Set New Records . . . Again (USDA Radio News; 05/12/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Ambassador Schwab Discusses 1Q08 Trade Deficit Report (.pdf; U.S. Trade Representative; 05/09/08)
• Schafer: South Korean Beef Deal Strong Despite Opposition (USDA Radio News; 05/09/08 - real, mp3, wave)
• Russia Allows for Importation of U.S. Livestock (05/07/08)
• Doha Round Deal and Impacts to High Food Prices (USDA Radio News; 05/07/08 - real, mp3, wave)

April

• U.S. Agricultural Trade Boosts Overall Economy (.pdf; USDA/Economic Research Service; April 2008)

• Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer on South Korea Reopening Market to U.S. Beef and Beef Products in Line with International Standards (04/18/08)

• Chile Approves Imports of U.S. Poultry (04/10/08)
• Statement By Secretary Schafer On Speaker Pelosi's Actions To Push A Change To Trade Promotion Authority For The Colombia Free Trade Agreement (04/10/08)
• Statement by the Secretary on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement
  "Today, the President signed a letter to Congress that will transmit legislation implementing the U.S. Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA). Congress needs to move forward with approving this agreement." (04/07/08)

March

• United States, Mexico and Canada Announce OIE-Consistent Trade Standards for Cattle (03/27/08; .pdf)
• Bush Administration Delivers Annual Trade Report To Congress (U.S. Trade Representative; 03/04/08)

February

• Statement by Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer on the Extension of the Andean Trade Preference Act by the U.S. House of Representatives  (02/28/08)
• USDA Raises Agricultural Exports Forecast To Record $101 Billion for 2008 (02/21/08)
• U.S. Files Appeal in WTO Brazil Cotton Case (02/13/08)

January

• Statement on EC-Biotech Dispute (01/14/08)
• Statement by Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner on the Full Implementation of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (01/02/08)

December 2007

• Statement by Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner on Signing of the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (12/14/07)

• USDA Opens New Agricultural Trade Office In China (12/14/07)

• USDA's Conner Responds to Congressional Approval of the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (12/04/07)

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Trade Data

Data Available
FAS provides a host of statistics and other data about agricultural trade from a number of
different sources.

• BICO Reports provides bulk, intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural product data in both a calendar or fiscal year format.
• U.S. Trade Reports provides a more comprehensive commodity by commodity breakdown of exports and imports over a two- or five-year period.

Databases of Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS) are available in MS Excel spreadsheet format from USDA's Economic Research Service. These include the following:

• State export data
• Agricultural exports by state for five fiscal years
• Top 10 exporting states by commodity
• Analytical text with methodology
• Total value of U.S. agricultural trade (1935 to present):
  • Calendar year
  • Fiscal year

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