China

COVID-19 and US-China trade and investment

The so-called “phase one” agreement was signed on January 15 to mark a partial, temporary truce in the U.S.-China battle of retaliatory tariffs (taxes on imports). IATP doubted that the commitment to increase U.S.

The China trade deal: Phase One of what for U.S. farmers?

President Donald Trump announced that on January 15, President Xi Jinping will come to the White House for the signing ceremony of an 86-page Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), characterized by Trump as “Phase One” of a trade deal that includes a temporary and partial truce in the U.S.-Chin

The trade cold war: Agricultural impacts

It’s hard to believe that transnational corporations—who sought and gained access to low-cost, non-union Chinese labor and more than one billion Chinese consumers in the 1990s and 2000s—could not have foreseen the day that China itself would compete in advanced technology products and markets.

Uprooted Episode 59: An update on the US-China trade dispute

Josh talks with Steve Suppan about some of the bigger picture issues surrounding the US-China trade dispute and how they might be informing talks that are headed toward a March 1 deadline. 

U.S.-China trade negotiations: Any plausible trade-offs?

At the end of 2018, the Financial Times collected articles by its writers on the current U.S.-China trade and investment disputes.

Uprooted Episode 21: Food and Ag in China

Josh is joined by Jim Harkness, former IATP President, and current advisor on China. We're talking about what the Chinese agricultural system looks like, what China's growing demand for meat and other foods means on a global scale, and how sustainable farmers in China are organizing to promote better practices in the system. 

Watching China’s food system

In early 2014, IATP released its first series of in-depth reports about the global meat industry. That series, the Global Meat Complex: The China Series, examined China’s path to becoming one of the biggest producers of pork, poultry and dairy and the biggest importer of soy.

Trump's action plan with China puts global agribusiness first

Politicians and headline writers often tout new trade announcements as big wins for U.S. farmers and ranchers. Almost never do they declare plainly, and more accurately: this deal is a big win for global agribusiness! Conflating the interests of global agribusiness operating in multiple countries and U.S. farmers’ is a misleading spin that serves corporate interests over the rest of us.

Trump’s agricultural trade policy with China: trade-offs or trade disputes?

With the U.S. confirmation of the Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) having taken place little more than a month ago, it may seem premature to write about the Trump administration’s agricultural trade policy. However, it appears that at least parts of this trade policy are occurring in trade-offs with China, outside traditional USTR and USDA channels.