We support trade agreements that provide commercially meaningful and significant improvements in market access for U.S. rice while maintaining the appropriate safety net for U.S. producers that include equal market access for all types and forms of rice.

The Market Access Program (MAP), Foreign Market Development (FMD) Program, and the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP) help the rice industry open foreign markets and promote our products abroad and have a proven track record of success in more than 30 overseas markets.  Learn more about our key export markets here. 
 

Recent News

  • USA Rice Trade Mission to Colombia: Part Two

    Jun 14, 2016

    Colombia has gone from our 51st largest export market in 2011 to our third largest in 2015, largely on the strength of milled rice exports entering under provisions of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Colombian regulations restrict the entry of U.S. paddy to the port of Barranquilla because of concerns over the presence in U.S. paddy of false smut, a plant disease. In meetings with U.S. embassy and Colombian government officials here last week, USA Rice expressed dissatisfaction with continual delays of an epidemiological study looking into the presence of false smut in Colombia. The release of this study is one of the first steps in mitigating/eliminating the current restrictions on U.S. paddy entry into Colombia. Full story
  • Combating Unfair Trade Practices: Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Petitions

    May 20, 2016

    California rice farmer and chairman of USA Rice’s Asian Trade Policy subcommittee Michael Rue once famously told regulators he feels like he’s not just competing with rice farmers in other countries, but rather with rice farmers and their entire governments. Unfair trade practices litter the global trade landscape. So what is a U.S. rice farmer to do? Full story
  • black and white movie screenshot talking on the phone In-Depth Analysis of TPP Shows Rice Right to Abstain for Now

    May 19, 2016

    The U.S. International Trade Committee (USITC), an independent, quasi-judicial Federal agency with broad investigative responsibilities on trade matters has released a long-awaited analysis of the mammoth Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, and the findings aren’t making the strong case for the deal that the Obama Administration likely had hoped for. Full story