Restoring reciprocal treatment of products is critical, the secretaries stated in their letter to the major ocean carriers. "USDEC commends the administration's recognition that the current situation facing our dairy exporters cannot continue and strongly supports further steps by the Federal Maritime Commission and other administration entities to drive change swiftly." Our competitors in the European Union and Oceania are eager to swoop in and scoop up those sales," said Krysta Harden, president and CEO of USDEC. "Dairy exporters are enduring tremendous challenges in getting their high-quality products to customers in overseas markets, which puts our industry's reputation as a reliable supplier at risk. The dairy groups stated that the supply chain problems have cost the dairy industry at least $1.3 billion over the first three quarters of 2021. NMPF and USDEC stated they had met repeatedly with USDA and Transportation officials, as well as the White House in recent months, "to urge greater administration focus on the shipping supply chain crisis's impact on agricultural exports." Dairy Export Council (USDEC) - thanked the secretaries for the letter to "call out profiteering by foreign-owned carriers." agricultural commodities.ĭairy exporters - the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and U.S. rather than having to deal with handling U.S. The shippers maintain they get more money to deliver containers to Asian shippers that can be quickly flipped for exports back to the U.S. ports, then returning with empty containers rather than shipping agricultural goods back to Asia, especially China. "In the spirit of fully utilizing our current infrastructure, we're writing to emphasize the critical nature of service to underutilized West Coast ports to ensure American agricultural exports can be freely transported overseas," the secretaries wrote.įor more than a year now, global carriers have been delivering cargo containers to U.S. The secretaries cited the "unprecedented disruption to the flow of goods worldwide" and the need for both government and industry "to pull every lever and maximize the use of our existing infrastructure to relieve congestion and shipping disruptions." agricultural exports fairly at West Coast ports and "restore reciprocal treatment of imports and exports that is inherent in trade."Īgriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wrote the presidents and executives of a dozen major global shipping lines to relieve the supply chains and consider options of other ports beyond the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. OMAHA (DTN) - A pair of Cabinet secretaries have written to the world's largest ocean carriers to demand they treat U.S. In many of the areas where this time zone is used, during fall to winter months Central Standard Time is observed, and then during Daylight Saving (spring to summer months) Central Daylight Time or CDT is used.For more than a year now, global carriers have been delivering cargo containers to U.S. Heure Normale du Centre or HNC (in French) Tiempo Central Estándar or CST (in Spanish) North American Central Standard Time or NACST
states, as well as several Canadian provinces and Central American countries.ĭepending on where the time zone is being referenced, it may be called one of these additional names:
Territories observing the time zone are primarily in North and Central America. That means to find the standard time in the zone you must subtract six hours from Coordinated Universal Time. Central Standard Time is six hours behind the Coordinated Universal Time standard, written as an offset of UTC - 6:00.