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Doud addresses China's ag practices
Story Date: 3/23/2018
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Source: POLITICIO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 3/22/18
The Trump administration will continue to take on China by both challenging Beijing's agricultural market practices and pushing for new agricultural standards at the WTO, Gregg Doud, USTR's chief agricultural negotiator, said Wednesday. He said that the U.S. would continue to pursue two Obama-era cases filed against China - one over its farm subsidies and one on tariff-rate quotas for rice, wheat and corn.
"We are calling for a reset of the agricultural negotiations [at the WTO], beginning with improved transparency and a more realistic understanding of who should and should not continue to claim things like developing country status," Doud said at the Agri-Pulse event.
Refresher on the WTO cases: The first case faults China for exceeding its allowable subsidy levels for rice, wheat and corn. China has spent at least $100 billion more than the WTO allows to support those commodities, according to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
The other case accuses the U.S.' biggest buyer of agricultural goods of blocking grain imports through its restrictive use of tariff-rate quotas. Both cases were launched by the Obama administration in 2016.
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