10/19/2009 08:03AM
The European Union's farm chief promised euro280 million ($420 million) for a special milk fund on Monday to ease the plight of dairy farmers facing the fallout of the financial crisis.
09/08/2009 07:35AM
France, Germany and 14 other EU nations demanded Monday that more action be taken to protect their dairy farmers from the global financial crisis.
06/10/2009 10:31AM
Domestic: U.S. corn export prices averaged $184 per ton in May, up $12 from April. Concerns over Eastern Corn Belt weather and crop conditions, depreciation of the dollar, and renewed interest from investors in commodity markets have all caused stronger prices. During the first week of June, prices averaged
05/11/2009 07:39AM
GENEVA (AP) - A long-running trade clash between the United States and the European Union over hormone-treated beef is almost resolved and could pave the way for an end to other disputes between the world's two biggest economic powers, the top U.S. trade official said Monday.
The EU last week agreed
05/06/2009 12:41PM
WASHINGTON (May 6, 2009) – The U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) today announced a meaningful first step in the longstanding trade dispute between the U.S. and European Union (EU) over the use of growth promotants in cattle. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA) has been working closely with
04/17/2009 10:58AM
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and the European Union appear unlikely to resolve a two-decade-old beef dispute by an April 23 deadline, setting the stage for the United States to rotate $116.8 million in retaliatory duties to a new set of EU products, a U.S. industry official said.
"At this
03/17/2009 10:09AM
BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--Farm prices in the European Union will remain depressed in the near term due to the global economic crisis but will recover by 2015, helped by growing demand for food, increased use of biofuels and slowing farm productivity growth, the European Commission said in a report Tuesday
03/13/2009 08:13AM
The United States will hold off on new retaliatory duties for European products while the two countries work on a possible fix to a dispute over beef trade that dates back to the 1980s, the U.S. Trade Representative's office said on Thursday.
The duties, set to take effect on March 23, will be held
03/12/2009 08:10AM
The European Union has imposed antidumping and anti-subsidy duties on imports of biodiesel from the United States, the latest in a series of trade frictions between the two trading giants.
From Friday, U.S. firms exporting biodiesel into the EU will have to pay additional antidumping tariffs of up