Charles Benoit

The U.S. agricultural trade deficit is expected to reach a record $42.5 billion in FY2025, well above 2024 record. And looking at the deficit masks our dire situation. Our exports of refined carbohydrates (🌽, soy) are useless unless you're the Cargill-MacMillan or Tysons…

Very pleased that Senator @RonWyden endorses managed trade for 🪵, an important Oregon industry. (It's also the right approach for all commodities where we're import dependent! Hello!)

.@POTUS' tariff on Mexican tomatoes is already having a positive impact on struggling American tomato farmers: "It's only been two days now, and we actually have a lot more calls of people having interest in doing business — and the price hasn't even changed."

"Many economists" have predicted @POTUS Trump's tariffs would immediately lead to skyrocketing inflation, shuttered businesses, and a wrecked American economy. Many economists were wrong.

One thing Canada has always been good at is food nationalism. It's now dialed up to 11 - a happy outcome thanks to President Trump. Everyone wants to buy local! Still, Maple Leaf Foods' "Look For The Leaf" nationalist TV/ad campaign is a bit on the 👃 because they're also on…

U.S. Trade Representative Jameson Greer @USTradeRep gave an important speech at the Reindustrialize Summit on Friday. He is absolutely right that “the best thing for our allies across the world is for America to have a strong industrial base.” We are working hard at exactly that…

The bathroom at @Tesla's new diner looks cool. The ceiling has a window looking down on Earth as if you were in a spacecraft.

When Sarasota was a fraction of its current size, the Herald-Tribune was a real newspaper covering local and state news. Now it's just a public affairs instrument for hire.

Our domestic sheep industry is on life support. Foreign imports now supply 70% of America’s lamb. We’ve formally asked @howardlutnick to impose a $1.25/lb tariff on imported lamb and phase down imports over 10 years. This isn’t just about lamb. It’s about every American livestock…

WATCH: Economists @CPAMihir & @AndrewRech welcome CPATV's first special guest to the show. Bill Bullard is CEO of @RCALFUSA, America's largest cattle producer-only trade association. 1️⃣ Tomatoes from Mexico 2️⃣ New World Screwworm Threat to Cattle 3️⃣ State of the Ag Trade

.@POTUS' tariffs "motivated Samsung" to build a $500M washing machine manufacturing plant in South Carolina, creating over 1,600 U.S. jobs: "There's not a whole lot of debate in Newberry, SC about whether or not @POTUS' tariffs help or hurt the economy here—they say it HELPS!"

Have you been told that Coca Cola started using corn syrup because of sugar tariffs? I was told that also. I probably even believed it at some point. It’s a kind of just-so story that’s popular with Conservative, Inc. But it ain’t so.

China is making all efforts for green transitions and has become the world’s top producer of clean energy. This is a cattle farm in China. Meanwhile, it’s also a solar farm. Incredible!

My Reindustrialize conference take away: domestic manufacturing is having its moment, which is great. Been waiting for this moment for 15 years. But everyone is too focused on defense manufacturing - which is important - but we need consumer products manufactured in the United…

We're looking at a quarter-TRILLION refund by @USTreasury later this year! Only @WaysandMeansGOP and @SenateFinance can defend against this very real possibility. They must codify the President's 10% Universal Tariff and 30% China tariffs currently being collected via IEEPA…

Given sugar's protective 194% over-quota tariff, this @CocaCola story is either: 👉 a tariff success story, wherein Coke switches to sugar and the price stays the same (🤞); or 👉 a penultimate victory for the globalist Congressional Candy Caucus that gets its quota increase.

Oh they understand. The issue is, the truth doesn’t fit the narrative they are paid to sell. Remember, most mainstream economists are not paid because they are correct, they are paid to help tell a story.

Are you paying attention yet? 113 TWh in June. Chinese solar generation will soon eclipse the biggest source of generation in the U.S. — natural gas. (167 TWh in June) We cannot build gas turbines quickly enough to keep up. We have to get serious about solar. Nothing else…

Getting questions about the "transshipped" rule of origin announced in Vietnam, Indonesia trade deal. No one knows how exactly this will look. Transshipped has a current, actual legal meaning: it means the Country of Origin is improperly labeled. If a good is labeled as…

The textile industry has long been an important facet of our economy. Today, I had a productive discussion with @NCTO, the voice of the U.S. textile industry. We discussed @POTUS’s vision for strategic manufacturing and this administration's ongoing efforts to bolster growth…

Fabulous video to celebrate la fête nationale 🇫🇷: vimeo.com/6037430