Kent Bacus

Despite all the challenges of dealing with China, Kent Bacus, director of international trade and market access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, believes it is still the most intriguing market for American beef producers. ...

Last week the USDA allowed raw beef from Brazil to be imported to the U.S.  The agency said the world’s largest beef exporter has taken the right steps to improve its food-safety inspection system, bringing it up to U.S. standards.  Some far...

While there are still details to get worked out, farm country continues to praise the Trump Administration for the bilateral trade deal announced between the U.S. and Japan.  Kent Bacus, Director of Trade and Market Access for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said like any other trade deal “the devil is in the details,” but he’s still excited about the announcement.  He added this agreem

The TPP, minus the U.S., will take effect by the end of this year, after Australia last week became the sixth of the 11 remaining nations to ratify the trade deal.  The inevitable is happening after President Trump withdrew the U.S. from TPP soon after taking office.  Na...

The U.S. beef industry expects significant gains in its largest foreign market, if the U.S. and Japan reach a new deal in just-agreed-upon trade talks.  From more than 38%, down to 9%, that’s the tariff relief U.S. beef could see from a bilateral trade deal with Japan, based on the TPP deal from which the U.S. withdre...

The U.S. beef industry is the latest in the agriculture community to tell President Trump withdrawing from KORUS, will cost millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.  As the president tries to appeal to blue collar workers in the rust belt who voted for him, the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association told the White House, scuttling KORUS is also a ‘job killer’.  NCBA’s trade adviser...