Tag: agricultural trade

  • Beef Wall Looms

    Brazil has burned through four fifths of its 2026 beef allowance in China, and once the last tonnes clear customs a 55 percent surcharge will lift total duties to roughly 67 percent, a level the industry says will stop the world’s biggest beef trade lane cold. SAO PAULO, July 27, 2026: Brazil’s beef industry is…

  • Russia Crop Tax

    Moscow revives its corn export duty and more than doubles the levy on sunflower oil in a July 24 package that reaches buyers from Cairo and Istanbul to New Delhi and Beijing. MOSCOW, July 27, 2026. Russia’s Ministry of Agriculture closed out last week with a late Friday package of higher agricultural export taxes, reviving…

  • When a Parasite Becomes a Trade Barrier Canada, Mexico and the World Respond to the First U.S. Screwworm Case in Six Decades

    When a Parasite Becomes a Trade Barrier Canada, Mexico and the World Respond to the First U.S. Screwworm Case in Six Decades

    On June 3, 2026, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed something it had not seen in nearly sixty years: a living animal on American soil infested with the larvae of the New World screwworm. The host was a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, in the brushland of South Texas about 25 miles from the Mexican…