DTB AgriTrade
Agricultural Trade Consultants
Policy experts at DTB AgriTrade analyze agricultural trade issues.
In June 2015, Craig Thorn provided testimony before the House Agriculture Committee describing the findings of a DTB paper on the increase of subsidies in advanced developing countries. The attention brought to these issues helped lead to the WTO …
DTB released this study in 2014, demonstrating that several developing countries (specifically Brazil, China, India, Thailand, and Turkey) had exceeded domestic support levels allowed under the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. A summary from the report …
DTB worked with several other firms to develop this study on the structure and impacts of China’s VAT for agricultural products, finding that it discriminated against agricultural imports and likely violated China’s WTO commitments. Executive …
In October 2007, Craig Thorn provided testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittees on Oversight and Trade. In it he addressed criticisms of the Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) Agreement and the importance of those rules to …
This article, published in the International Environmental Law Committee Newsletter by the American Bar Association, described the relationship between the Cartagena Protocol and the WTO agreements relevant to agricultural biotechnology. THE …
In October 2000, Craig Thorn provided testimony before the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on International Trade on two critical challenges facing U.S. agriculture at the time – a new round of WTO negotiations and international regulatory …
Shortly before forming DTB Associates, Craig Thorn provided testimony before the Senate Finance Committee’s Subcommittee on International Trade on the importance of further liberalization in agricultural trade following the end of the Uruguay Round …
“The Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade,” was published in Law and Policy in International Business (Volume 31, Number 3, Spring 2000) shortly before DTB …
