Senate Finance Committee Leadership Sends Letter to USTR Ambassador Tai, Notes Mexico's Failure to Adhere to Biotech Commitments
January 12, 2022
The United States-Mexico-Canda Agreement has the potential to deliver tangible benefits for America's workers, farmers, and businesses by improving and strengthening the relationship between the United States and its two closest trading partners. However, that potential will not be realized without full implementation and enforcement of the Agreement as written. Critically, while it would be preferable to resolve USMCA's implementation issues through negotiation, the Office of the United States Trade Representative must be prepared to use the strong and innovative enforcement tools that Congress pushed to include in USMCA to ensure that the Agreement lives up to its full potential.
BIO and the American Seed Trade Association submitted comments on USDA-APHIS' proposed exemptions of five types of genetic modifications a plant can contain and be exempt from regulations for the movement of organisms modified or produced through…
BIO joined with other groups in writing House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders in support of agricultural research (FFAR) funding in the farm bill.
BIO and 59 other organizations have written to House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders to ask that they direct Congress to withdraw the current rule concerning regulation of plant incorporated protectants and replace it one based on a science…
The United States-Mexico-Canda Agreement has the potential to deliver tangible benefits for America's workers, farmers, and businesses by improving and strengthening the relationship between the United States and its two closest trading partners. However, that potential will not be realized without full implementation and enforcement of the Agreement as written. Critically, while it would be preferable to resolve USMCA's implementation issues through negotiation, the Office of the United States Trade Representative must be prepared to use the strong and innovative enforcement tools that Congress pushed to include in USMCA to ensure that the Agreement lives up to its full potential.