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International Trade committee  If I understood the question correctly as far as some of the best advantages for the Korean market, we missed a few things along the way when we talked about the possibility of, depending on the various sectors, increased jobs or what have you. Certainly in our industry, and perh

October 7th, 2014Committee meeting

Philip de Kemp

International Trade committee  I'll try to answer that. Having been an ex-grain trader many years ago, even though I'm president of the malting industry, 3% may not sound like much if you're dealing on a $250 CIF but when you start adding up $6 or $7 a tonne.... If I'm a trader, I don't care if I'm working fo

October 7th, 2014Committee meeting

Philip de Kemp

Agriculture committee  Good morning, Mr. Chairman, and ladies and gentlemen of the committee. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the economic contribution our industry provides to both farmers and the economy, let me first describe to you who we are and what we do. I'll give a brief historical p

December 4th, 2012Committee meeting

Philip de Kemp

International Trade committee  From an agricultural perspective, and having been involved in working in two WTO negotiations over the last 25 years, I would be very surprised if the U.S. is going to be able to walk the talk. You take a look at rice; you take a look at cotton. Let's see where it goes from there

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  We have partnerships right now with Japanese brewers like Sapporo, with whom we're developing a barley variety for their exclusive use. We have a couple of different companies—Rahr Malting and Prairie Malt—participating in that. They spend an awful lot of time, effort, and money

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  We were one of the founding members of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance. We got our e-mail briefing from Kathleen, our executive director, yesterday. Obviously, if she sent it to us, it's not confidential, I would assume. It indicated that some Canadian officials just came b

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  Two things, if I may. Sapporo is such an important customer that it has an economic relationship with the bigger prairie malt plants because it has developed a variety, PolarStar, that is now grown by producers. Their brewers spend over two months a year doing farm audits for sup

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  Absolutely. The tariffs aren't going to be the issue. It's going to be on the quotas. We have to still spend a little bit of time on this. We have differences of opinion among the members, quite frankly, about this, about their taxation policies. I know it's a domestic policy is

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  There are some very high tariffs, no question about it. Look, I came from a dairy farm and the word “quotas” right now seems to be a dirty word around the world, or here perhaps. But everything is driven by quotas in applications in Japan, and certainly for malt. If you're over

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  Right now, there is no issue with GMOs. We don't accept it. As far as barley, the farmers are not interested in GMOs. Quite frankly, it's all driven by the international brewing industry, in terms of any perceived or misconceived notions about GMO products. They drive the demand,

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp

International Trade committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of the malting industry and its members, we appreciate the invitation today to highlight briefly for you the importance of an economic partnership agreement to strengthen our trading relationship with

May 31st, 2012Committee meeting

Phil de Kemp