Source:  MEATINGPLACE.COM, 9/14/10

Eric Trachtenberg has been named vice president for international trade at the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC).

Trachtenberg previously worked for USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service for 15 years. Most recently he was posted in Beijing, where he served as director of the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office and as senior agricultural attaché in the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy.

From 2001 to 2005, Trachtenberg was deputy chief of the Agricultural Affairs Section at the American Institute in Taiwan, and from 1998 to 2001 he was assigned to the Office of Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He is fluent in Russian and speaks Chinese.

“USAPEEC has worked closely with Eric throughout his FAS career in many of our key markets, including China, Russia and Taiwan,” said USAPEEC President Jim Sumner. “His experience will help us to address our ongoing trade issues, which seem to be growing by the week.”

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