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Since USDA first established a stand-alone mission area focusing on trade and international affairs in 2017, USDA’s Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs and the Foreign Agricultural Service, have made significant trade policy advances to support U.S. agriculture. This series of commodity fact sheets highlights the many recent trade policy advances achieved by USDA.

While trade tensions and China’s retaliatory tariffs slashed U.S. agricultural exports to China in 2018 and 2019,

On December 24, 2018, Korea issued an updated list of adjustment tariffs and voluntary tariff rate quotas (TRQs) for certain agricultural, forestry and fishery products....

Infographic showing U.S. agricultural exports to Panama in 2016. Total U.S. agricultural exports reached $670 million.

Line graphic illustrating the effects of the U.S. - Colombia free trade agreement which went into effect in 2012.

Infographic showing U.S. agricultural exports to Colombia in 2016. Total U.S. agricultural exports reached $2.4 billion.

The U.S. - Peru Trade Promotion Agreement (PTPA) has served to generate a continuing symbiotic trade relationship between the United States and Peru that shows no signs of diminishing.

Since the United States entered into the CAFTA-DR trade agreement, U.S. agricultural exports to the six CAFTA-DR countries have more than doubled.

According to the Bank of Guatemala (BANGUAT), the food processing industry in Guatemala for year 2015, will grow 3.5 percent and will contribute 0.67 percent to the total GDP.

Central America and the Caribbean, with their close geographical and economic ties to the United States, have always been an important market for U.S. agricultural exports.

Under the May 2012 United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CTPA), certain commodities are imported into Colombia under TRQs.

The U.S-Mexico ag trade relationship is broad and deep, with opportunities to further integrate our rural economies while supplying desired products to consumers in both countries year-round.