Category: Trade

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service has awarded $179,000 in Technical Assistance for Specialty Crops funding to the National Potato Council to support its ongoing market access efforts in Japan over...

WASHINGTON – The National Potato Council today welcomed a bipartisan, bicameral letter sent to President Trump by 68 members of Congress, urging the Administration to prioritize opening Japan’s market...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Potato Council (NPC), in partnership with Great American Media Services and its Spudman magazine, today released the Spud Sector Survey 2026©. This comprehensive report,...

WASHINGTON D.C. – The National Potato Council (NPC) welcomes today’s announcement by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) regarding expanded market access in South Korea. Effective Jan. 23, 2026, the agreement...

Today, the National Potato Council Executive Committee unanimously approved a resolution requesting the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to launch a fact-finding investigation into Canadian trade...

The National Potato Council is disappointed that the U.S.-Japan agreement did not include fresh market access for U.S. potatoes. Japan has delayed this market access request from the U.S....

As the President prepares to depart for Asia, the Trump Administration today announced the launch of a new trade investigation into China’s failure to uphold the terms of the Phase One...

[Pictured above: USDA Undersecretary for Trade Luke Lindberg (left) joins BCI’s Matt Lantz at a grocery store in Tokyo to view U.S. processed potato products available to Japanese consumers.]...

The much-anticipated U.S.-Japan bilateral meeting Sept. 17-19 in Idaho Falls on fresh potato access concluded last week with little progress made on the U.S. potato industry’s number one trade...