Sentences with phrase «agricultural products trade»

Following 2014 and 2015 presidential visits, Argentina and China agreed to strengthen bilateral ties by signing several agreements to boost agricultural products trade.

Not exact matches

Singling out these products would put pressure on U.S. technology companies and could particularly hurt agricultural areas across the U.S. China is a key trade partner for U.S. agriculture — it purchased close to one - third of American soybeans last year.

The U.S. demands came after Beijing offered to narrow the trade deficit by $ 50 billion, including by importing more liquefied natural gas, agricultural products, semiconductors and luxury goods, according to the person.

A freer trade in agricultural products also engenders innovation and the development of new markets: Turner points to the way Regina - based AGT Food and Ingredients (formerly Alliance Grain Traders) has carved out new and expanding niches for Canadian - grown lentils.

BWI is one of only about 100 agricultural product brokers who collectively do half a trillion dollars in trade every year.

Following a January rally, the global commodities complex underwent declines in February before partially recovering in March; for the first quarter as a whole, the benchmark Thomson Reuters CoreCommodity CRB Index (CRB) gained 0.8 % on a price - only basis.1 Among the 19 component commodities tracked by the CRB, advancers had a slight edge over decliners, buoyed by growth in global economies and weakness in the trade - weighted US dollar, which retreated 2.1 %, according to the Federal Reserve's (Fed's) US Dollar Index.1 Aside from robust gains for a host of agricultural products, oil and gold were also among the commodity winners.

Asked about the impact on Hong Kong of a trade war, Yau said: «It is hard to assess now without a detailed list, as the US proposal only included a few general categories such as agricultural products and electronics... It also depends on what countermeasures the Chinese government rolls out.»

Specific measures include renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); assisting small business through Green Venture Capital Funds and tax shifting; encouraging the production and consumption of Canadian agricultural products; protecting fish stocks and promoting sustainable aquaculture; and working with the forestry industry to protect jobs and develop value - added products.

Experts worry that the United States» actions could ignite a trade war, noting that Chinese economic officials have a keen understanding of the American system and are good at designing targeted retaliatory measures against American agricultural products and other exports.

Following mergers with the London Traded Options Market (LTOM) and the London Commodity Exchange (LCE), Liffe added equity options and a range of soft and agricultural commodity products to its existing financial mix.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today applauded Rep. Devin Nunes (R - CA) for his introduction of the Agricultural Trade Facilitation Act, a bill that will help expand export markets for U.S. agricultural products through facilitating trade agreements that are science based and Agricultural Trade Facilitation Act, a bill that will help expand export markets for U.S. agricultural products through facilitating trade agreements that are science based and transpaTrade Facilitation Act, a bill that will help expand export markets for U.S. agricultural products through facilitating trade agreements that are science based and agricultural products through facilitating trade agreements that are science based and transpatrade agreements that are science based and transparent.

Coffee is seriously global, which makes it one of the most valuable and widely traded agricultural product on earth.

In the 1970s, the company's interests shifted to worldwide trading in agricultural, marine and food products in combination with the GraceKennedy organization by forming Terfloth & Kennedy Ltd..

It covers all agricultural products labeled as organic in import, export, and inter-provincial trade — thus, coffee is included.

Mr Liu and Fortescue Metals chairman Andrew Forrest co-chair the Australia Sino One Hundred Year Agricultural and Food Safety Partnership which aims to promote international trade in Australian agriculture and manufactured food products, with a particular focus on China.

The American Organic Trade Association (OTA) together with the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), Office of Agricultural Affairs in Berlin and U.S. organic food and product companies participated in the Biofach and reported a leap in business inquiries

By 2004, a World Bank report, «Coffee Markets: New Paradigms in Global Supply and Demand» substantiated that structural shifts in the global industry of coffee will likely hinder significant advances for many producing nations to more equitably participate in what is the world's most valuable agricultural trade product.

Originally named From The Field Trading Company, our company is committed to providing customers with the highest quality vanilla products directly from farmers who only use organic and sustainable agricultural practices.

Currently, F&F is solely owned by Austrian company RWA International Holding, an international trading and services organisation that sells agricultural products and commodities -LSB-...]

The Foreign Agricultural Service provides trade data and analysis on global markets for organic products.

The IFOAM project Regional Cooperation for Organic Standards and Certification Capacity in East Africa (OSEA) and the UNEP / UNCTAD Capacity Building Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development (CBTF) project Promoting Production and Trading Opportunities for Organic Agricultural Products in East Africa facilitated the development of a regional organic standard in the period 2005 to 2007.

The International Trade Centre, a joint venture between the World Trade Organization and the UN, in its 2017 State of Sustainable Markets research, reports, «Sustainable agricultural products, demonstrably compliant with internationally recognized standards, are growing at a pace that outstrips markets for conventional products.»

«USDA is excited to work with the Organic Trade Association on the National Certified Transitional Program, providing producers with a consistent transitional standard to market their products,» said USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator Elanor Starmer.

While some companies have been able to export their products despite the embargo on many goods that remains in place for both countries — agricultural commodities, for example, have been eligible for export since 2000 — there is a recognition that robust trade takes far more than a year to foster.

Hunter - gatherers may have brought agricultural products to the British Isles by trading wheat and other grains with early farmers from the European mainland.

Until the West removes trade barriers, particularly on agricultural products, inequality between rich and poor will remain the key structural underpinning of our economy.

The new study used the concept of «virtual water,» an economic concept used to track water flows through trade, to track how water is traded through agricultural products and other goods that require water to produce.

In a report commissioned by US think - tank Center for Global Development (CGD) Martin Persson and colleagues in Linköping, Sweden, and Vienna, Austria, have investigated to which extent international trade in agricultural and silvicultural products drives deforestation in seven case countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

NCDEX (National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange) service package is designed for traders, who trade in agricultural commodities like Jeera, Soyabean, Castorseed, Chana, Turmeric, Soyabean, Soyaoil, Cardamom and other agri products.

There are a wide range of commodities that are traded daily including oil, gasoline, timber, agricultural products like orange juice and coffee, and precious metals like gold and platinum.

The index is intended to track the overall performance of companies involved in: (i) agri - chemicals, animal health and fertilizers, seeds and traits, (ii) farm / irrigation equipment and farm machinery and / or (iii) agricultural products (including grain, tobacco, meat, poultry, and sugar), aquaculture and fishing, livestock plantations, and trading of agricultural products.

Their animals provide partners with both food and reliable income, as agricultural products such as milk, eggs and honey that can be traded or sold at market.

All agricultural crops, other land products and animal products are globally traded within GCAM.

ECONOMIC OVERVIEW Minister of the Economy: Roberto Lavagna Currency: Peso Financial Exchange Rate: US$ 1 = 3.6 Argentine Pesos (10/29/02) Nominal Gross Domestic Product (2001E): $ 267.6 billion (2002E): $ 111.3 billion Real GDP Growth Rate: (2001E): -4.5 % (2002E): -13.7 % Inflation Rate: (2001E): -1.1 % (2002E): 30.7 % Unemployment Rate: (2002E): 22 % Current Account Balance as a % of GDP: (2001E): -1.7 % (2002E): 7.3 % Major Trading Partners: Brazil, United States, Japan, Uruguay, Chile, Germany, France Major Export Products (2000): Agricultural products (including manufacturing of agricultural products)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goodProducts (2000): Agricultural products (including manufacturing of agricultural products)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital Agricultural products (including manufacturing of agricultural products)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goodproducts (including manufacturing of agricultural products)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital agricultural products)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goodproducts)(55 %), industrial products (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goodproducts (30 %), energy (15 %) Major Import Products (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goodProducts (2000): Consumer goods (23 %), industrial inputs (including raw materials)(34 %), capital goods (43 %)

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

Documenting and exposing crimes in forests around the globe, EIA works to reform forest governance and shut down networks that trade in illicit wood products and agricultural commodities driving deforestation

We can't rely on tribal peoples to stop potentially dangerous people from robbing them of their inheritance, but we can take joint responsibility by stopping any trade in agricultural products.

Peter represents a broad spectrum of U.S. and international energy and commodity companies, including significant European and Asian companies trading both energy and agricultural products.

Canada's Trade - marks Act (Act) was amended as a result of CETA, expanding the definition of geographical indication (GI) to include agricultural products and foods.

The EU deal includes bigger trade quotas for agricultural products and extensions of IP protection.