The 2018 World Meat Congress gets underway this week in Dallas. Trade policy issues will be front-and-center at the WMC as a panel of experts will discuss the likely future direction of the global trading system. The panel will be moderated by Ambassador Darci Vetter, former chief agricultural negotiator for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

 

The panel will include Ted McKinney, USDA undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, Kenneth Smith Ramos, chief NAFTA negotiator for the Mexican Ministry of the Economy, and Jean-Marc Trarieux, who manages trade issues with North and South America for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Agriculture and Rural Development. Vetter says this is a great opportunity to talk trade…

 

 

 

Vetter noted that vision should be more than just bilateral trade deals…

 

 

 

In addition to the panel on trade, other key note speakers include Sonny Perdue, the Argentinian Agriculture Minister, and Canadian Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Lawrence MacAulay.

 

For a complete agenda and other details, please visit https://www.2018wmc.com.