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CONTACT: USDA Office of Communications (202) 720-4623 WASHINGTON, October 22, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the U.S. - Panama Trade Promotion Agreement: "The U.S.-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement...

The European Union (EU) is a relatively new market for U.S. beef exports. It wasn’t until August 2009 when the United States began exporting high-quality beef (marbled with a high fat content) to the EU under a negotiated tariff rate quota for non...

Approximately 350,000 school children in Bangladesh now have access to a daily snack after the U.S. government recently donated more than 10,000 metric tons of wheat to the country through the Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) McGovern-Dole Food...

An innovative Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)-funded program in Pakistan is not only improving local diets, but is creating jobs, training workers and helping create a thriving aquaculture industry. The American Soybean Association’s (ASA) World...

WASHINGTON Sept. 28, 2012 — Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 180,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began Sept. 1. USDA issues both...

WASHINGTON Sept. 27, 2012 — Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began Sept. 1. USDA issues both...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2012 — Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 140,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began Sept. 1...

The Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) in Beijing recently partnered with the U.S. dry edible bean industry to launch a program that aims to pack more protein into Chinese diets. The Nebraska Department of...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2012 — Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 140,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal to South Korea during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybean cake and...

Before Nguyen Thi Chi Linh participated in the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Cochran Fellowship Program in 2004, she was a manager for one of the three largest feed manufacturers in Vietnam. Today, she’s one of the country’s most successful...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2012 — Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 210,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2012/2013 marketing year. The marketing year for soybeans began Sept. 1...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2012 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 raw and refined sugar tariff-rate quotas (TRQs). USDA is establishing the FY 2013 TRQ for raw cane sugar at 1,231,497 short tons raw value...