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

  • Taiwan Emerging as New Market for Southern Medium and Long Grain Rice

    Apr 07, 2016

    Southern U.S. rice has taken a greater share of the Taiwan import market over the past two years. Taiwan began looking at southern U.S. long grain and medium grain rice to comply with their Country Specific Quota (CSQ)-USA commitment in 2014. They purchased 11,000 tons of long grain and 18,000 ton of medium grain from the South which arrived in Taiwan in the spring of 2015. Full story
  • USTR Ag Chief Visits Arkansas to Talk TPP and Hear Rice Concerns

    Apr 01, 2016

    The chief agricultural negotiator for the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Ambassador Darci Vetter, spent much of this week in Arkansas, visiting with rice farmers and millers participating in the Arkansas Farm Bureau meeting, and other agriculture groups as she continues to make the case for the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, signed earlier this year. Full story
  • ITP-Vilsack-in-Cuba-Rice-Aisle-in-2015-160321 New Agreements for U.S.-Cuba Agriculture Sectors Announced During Historic Visit

    Mar 21, 2016

    Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who is traveling with President Obama on his historic visit to Cuba this week, announced today that agricultural commodity groups receiving funding from federal check-offs or U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Marketing Orders for research and promotion activities are now able to use their resources in preparing for normalized trade with the country. USA Rice promotion activities were not impacted by today’s announcement because, when conducting promotion activities in Cuba, USA Rice uses state-generated resources that are not subject to federal check-off restrictions. Full story