Gregg Doud

Supply chain issues are challenging the agricultural sector, and farmers and ranchers hoping for quick solutions may be out of luck. A recent House Ag Committee hearing focused on transportation problems that are slowing the export of goods and commodities across the U ...

Aimpoint Research announced Tuesday the addition of former U.S. Trade Ambassador Gregg Doud. He has been named Aimpoint’s vice president of global situation awareness and chief economist. Doud who most recently served as Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Tr ...

Greg Doud with the U.S Trade Representative’s office recently made a trip through Washington, talking about the state’s Ag community and what can be done to encourage more trade into the future. Central Washington Representative Dan Newhouse met with the Ambassador during his stop in Ritzville. The two t ...

The United States and the United Kingdom wrapped up the fourth round of trade talks this month, with another round planned for mid-October. The UK Department of International Trade says, "Significant progress has been achieved since launching negotiations in May 2020, and most chapter areas are now in the advanced stages of talks ...

The USDA says livestock is now added to the list of products included in the organic trade arrangement between the U.S. and Japan. TheFencePost.com says livestock can now be certified to either country’s organic standards for sale as organic in both markets. “ ...

The African continent is being pursued by U.S. trade leaders as a potential location for agricultural export growth.  The first location American leaders are looking, is Kenya.   “It's going to be a historic and difficult conversation,” said Gregg Doud with the U.S. Trade Representati...

Trade agreements between Japan, China, and the USMCA are all done.  According to Gregg Doud, Chief Agricultural Negotiator of the US Trade Representative’s Office, those deals were done at a pace he referenced to as "historic".   “Since I've been there in 22 months we've renegotiated 51% of U.S. Ag exports,” Doud ...

Phase One has been signed.  But now the new question facing the Ag community, how will the agreement be enforced?   “The assistant USTR level,” said the US Trade Representative's Office Chief AG Negotiator, Gregg Doud.  “The U.S. and China...

The Phase One trade agreement between China and the U.S. has the two nations in “close contact” as they work toward getting the deal finally signed. U.S. Chief Ag Negotiator Gregg Doud said the agreement between the world’s two largest economies will mean big numbers of Chinese agricultural purchases of U.S. ag commodities...

On Sunday, President Trump announced a trade agreement in principle with Japan, keeping exports of American products, such as wheat, moving into a very large market.  While few details have been released, and it still needs to be approved by Japan’s Legislature, U.S. Wheat A...