Trade to Dominate Bush's Farm Agenda
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President Bush will begin a second term barely a year after the United States had its first case of mad cow disease and as Japan and other countries maintain bans on U.S. beef.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush pledged Friday to work with Congress to comply with a WTO ruling in a row over payment of anti-dumping duties to US companies, and said he expected the trade body to hold Europe to account over &quot;unfair&quot; subsidies to
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Investor's Business Daily - Trade negotiators may be near a breakthrough, said U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab. The Bush administration is hoping, after over 6 years of fractious talks, to overcome divisions over tariffs, subsidies and other trade rules, and produce a new global pact before Pres. Bush leaves office. Rich nations want lower tariffs on industrial goods and services; poor nations want farm subsidies and tariffs scrapped.
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Senators on Thursday urged President Bush' pick for agriculture secretary to work with farm-state lawmakers on the five-year farm bill that has stalled in talks between Congress and the administration.
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By LIBBY QUAID  WASHINGTON - Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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President George W. Bush warned on Wednesday he will veto the new U.S. farm law if it raises taxes or fails to cut off subsidies to farmers and land owners making more than $200,000 a year.
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Busing through western Ohio, where jobs have been slow to come back in the economic recovery, President Bush told rural audiences on Saturday that he would work to open foreign markets to U.S. crops and factory goods.
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SYDNEY, Sept. 7 -- President Bush on Friday called on Pacific Rim leaders to support efforts to expand free trade, saying that open markets are a crucial element in strengthening the "forces of freedom and prosperity."
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President Bush reached into the farm belt on Thursday to name Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns as his new agriculture secretary, a surprise choice that rewarded a bedrock Republican region.
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President Bush is making a renewed push to allow the government to spend food aid money to buy crops in poor countries
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President Bush's top trade negotiator said Tuesday that the recent takeover of Congress by Democrats would not derail the administration's aggressive trade agenda.
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President Bush on Tuesday approved changes aimed at modernizing the country's controls on the export of sensitive products to foreign nations. U.S. manufacturers said the changes should boost the ability of American companies to make overseas sales.
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The Bush administration wants to allow ocean farming for shellfish, salmon and saltwater species in federal waters for the first time, hoping to grab a greater share of the $70 billion aquaculture market.
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Powerful interests in Washington have swayed a new farm bill toward big business, Democrat Barack Obama said Monday, campaigning in the most rural region of this crucial early voting state and promising to do better as president.
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BEIJING, Sept.12 -- A senior United States trade official strongly suggested that the Bush administration will move in coming weeks to limit imports of Chinese clothing, opening a new front in a simmering trade conflict with the world's most populous country in the final weeks of the presidential campaign.
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Security, immigration and trade are on the agenda as George Bush visits Guatemala as part of his Latin America tour.
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ANCHORENA PARK, Uruguay  - The United States is prepared to reduce agricultural subsidies but wants to ensure market access for goods, President George W. Bush said on Saturday during a tour of Latin America.