U.S. exporters

The USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service launched a new Export Sales Reporting and Maintenance System. Which requires U.S. exporters to report any sales transactions with buyers outside the U.S. for many key commodities.

As the container shipping crisis cripples U.S. exporters, nearly 300 ag and forest producers in a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, to urging immediate action now to remedy the situation.

U.S. exporters shipped over 184-thousand tons of milk powders, cheese, whey products, lactose and butterfat to overseas buyers in January, a 21% jump from last year.

A coalition of trade associations wants the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Pacific Maritime Association to start contract discussions early. Those groups, which represent dock workers and the companies that own West Coast port facilities, in 2014 and into early 2015 were involved in labor talks and a work slowdown that negatively affected U...