AFIA leadership to serve on US Agricultural Trade Advisory Committees

The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) has announced that Constance Cullman, AFIA's president and CEO, and Mallory Gaines, AFIA's manager of market access and trade policy, have been appointed to serve on the US Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service's Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC) and Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) for Trade in Animals and Animal Products, respectively. Ms Cullman and Ms Gaines will serve until 2024.
 

Constance Cullman (left), AFIA's president and CEO,
and Mallory Gaines (right), AFIA's manager of market access
and trade policy, have been appointed to serve on two
USDA Foreign Agricultural Service committees.
Image credit: AFIA

 Ms Cullman and Ms Gaines join Gina Tumbarello, AFIA's director of international policy and trade, who has served on the ATAC for Trade in Grains, Feed, Oilseeds and Planting Seeds since 2014, in providing valuable technical and policy advice and information about US animal food products and the industry to the secretary of agriculture and US Trade Representative (USTR).

'Just like many industries, the US animal food manufacturing industry depends on the sale of its products to international markets. By having Constance, Gina and Mallory participating in these various trade advisory committees at USDA, it allows for the animal food industry to have a voice at the table as trade agreement and policy issues are discussed,' stated Scott Druker of Church & Dwight Company and AFIA board chair.

Congress established the advisory committee system in 1974 to ensure that US agricultural trade policy objectives reflect US public- and private-sector commercial and economic interests. The US Department of Agriculture and the USTR manage the committees.

For more information, Visit the USDA website, HERE.

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