Sothmann Speaks on OBBA Trade Impacts

DTB AgriTrade policy expert Stephen Sothmann spoke to Inside U.S. Trade, in his role as executive director at the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council, about the trade promotion impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law on July 4, 2025. The bill includes permanent annual funding to the Agriculture Department’s new Supplemental Agricultural Trade Promotion Program.

“The bill ‘effectively doubled’ funding for efforts run via USDA’s Market Access and Foreign Market Development programs, Stephen Sothmann, executive director at the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council, told Inside U.S. Trade.”