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June 30, 2025We would like to express our greatest support for including language to transfer our flagship international food aid program Food for Peace to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the FY26 agriculture spending bill. The undersigned organizations represent...
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February 6, 2025COAST GUARD AND MARITIME TRANSPORTATION SUBCOMMITEE HEARING ON “AMERICAN BUILDS: MARITIME INFRASTRUCTURE” FEBRUARY 5, 2025 Thank you to the Coast Guard subcommittee, especially Chairman Ezell – welcome aboard – and Ranking Member Carbajal, for holding this hearing today. I’m...
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August 18, 2023LONGVIEW, WA – At the Washington Port of Longview, American farmers, port workers, millers, mariners, and state and federal policymakers, stood together to commemorate the significant humanitarian shipment of 28,000 metric tons of American-grown wheat on the LIBERTY GLORY...
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June 23, 2023WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Representatives Tracey Mann (KS-01), John Garamendi (CA-08), Rick Crawford (AR-01), and Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) introduced legislation that would ensure that U.S.-grown commodities remain the cornerstone of international food aid. “America’s international food aid programs...
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June 30, 2022To combat the misinformation circulating about cargo preference, food aid, and U.S.-flag shipping the unions, associations and carriers in USA Maritime are fact-checking these claims. We encourage you to check our work. Read more (PDF)
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October 1, 2020“International Food Aid and Food Assistance Programs and the Next Farm Bill” released by Professor Christopher B. Barrett, Stephanie Mercier, and Erin C. Lentz in October 2017 (“Barrett Paper”), argues for an end to the cargo preference system which...
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August 9, 2020Dear Chairman Shelby, Ranking Member Leahy, Chairwoman Lowey, and Ranking Member Granger: We thank the Appropriations Committee for more than sixty years of bipartisan support for U.S. international food aid programs, including P.L. 480 Title II (Food for Peace),...
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April 11, 2019With recent trends moving toward an increase in food assistance needs and global security threats, now is the time for America to continue our leadership role in the world by showing full support for Food for Peace, a program...
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March 20, 2019On March 6, 2019, more than 150 officers and representatives from U.S.-flag shipping companies, American maritime labor unions, and related maritime organizations came to Capitol Hill for the tenth annual Maritime Industry Congressional Sail-In. The Sail-In was cosponsored by...
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July 27, 2018America’s in-kind food donation programs have kept our nation at the forefront of global humanitarian assistance for more than 60 years. Shipped from the Heartland to ports overseas in vessels flying the American flag, donated American commodities stamped “From...
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