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Supreme Court Can Close Huge Loophole that Exposes Businesses and Consumers to Commodity Market Manipulation

WASHINGTON, D.C.— Yesterday, Better Markets, the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) filed an amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court to review and reverse a lower court decision that dramatically limited protections against manipulation in the commodity markets, in the case of Laydon v

U.S. escalates trade dispute over GM corn, challenges Mexico's food sovereignty

MINNEAPOLIS/Washington, D.C.—Today, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) office escalated its complaint against Mexico’s ban on genetically modified (GM) corn, asserting it as a potential violation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). USTR filed a request for the formation of a dispute resolution panel under the USCMA framework.

IATP Letter to the CFTC on the Kalshi Control Contract

The following letter was sent to the Secretary of the Commission of the U.S.

Betting on elections is not hedging economic risk

Betting on U.S. presidential elections has a long history, according to a November 2022 article in The New Yorker.

Food system experts launch project to transform global food trade rules

MINNEAPOLIS—The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) is pleased to announce the launch of an ambitious three-year project that will advance urgently needed changes to the global trading system to meet the mounting challenges in global food distribution.

The writing on the wall: Lessons learned from the collapse of the Black Sea Grain Initiative

When Russia announced it would not renew the Black Sea Grain Initiative on July 17, anger and disappointment mixed with a sense of resignation. The news was hardly unexpected.

The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode One: Overgrown

From IATP, Episode 1 of a 6-part podcast series: The Farm Bill Uprooted.

Worlds collide on science of public health

I had just returned from an exhilarating, intellectually stimulating week in Mexico City when the news broke that the United States government had escalated its challenge to Mexico’s restrictions on genetically modified (GM) corn to the level of a formal dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement (USMCA).

Trade flows and trade policies driving deforestation

It seems every day the climate catastrophe inches closer to us. Last week, dense smoke from wildfires in Canada led to severe air quality alerts across the East coast of the United States, with a stinking yellow haze coating the skies.

Nadar contra corriente

Desde el inicio del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (TLCAN) en 1994, México ha experimentado un dramático deterioro en su capacidad para producir sus propios alimentos. El propósito de este informe es evaluar cómo el dumping agrícola estadounidense de exportaciones baratas ha contribuido a la pérdida de autosuficiencia alimentaria de México.