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Trade progress with Mexico, Canada, Japan
offers opportunity for U.S. meat exports
Gas prices edge lower to kick
off summer driving season
East Oregonian
GAS PRICES
PORTLAND — Pump
prices continue to inch down
despite strong demand. The
vast majority of Memo-
rial Day travelers found gas
prices a little lower than they
were in early May. For the
week, the national average
loses 2 cents to $2.83 a gal-
lon while the Oregon average
dips a penny to $3.42 a gallon.
“Gas prices are edging
lower and that’s a trend driv-
ers can expect to continue
into early June. Stable crude
oil prices are helping to put
downward pressure on pump
prices, despite tight domestic
supplies and robust demand.
Another bump in demand
could push prices higher but
only by a few cents,” said
Marie Dodds, public affairs
director for AAA Oregon/
Idaho.
Oregon is one of 43 states
and the District of Colum-
bia where prices are lower
this week. Ohio (-7 cents) has
the largest weekly decrease,
while Wyoming (+3 cents)
has the largest week-over-
week increase. This week
there are nine states with an
average above $3 a gallon,
down from 10 a week ago.
Oregon is one of 12 states
with higher prices now than
a month ago. The national
The West Coast contin-
ues to have the highest
pump prices in the nation
with all of the region’s
states landing on the top
10 most expensive list.
1. California $3.99
2. Hawaii $3.65
3. Washington $3.54
4. Alaska $3.49
5. Nevada $3.48
6. Oregon $3.42
7. Idaho $3.20
8. Utah $3.18
9. Arizona $3.13
10. Pennsylvania $2.98
average is 6 cents less and
the Oregon average is 2 cents
more than a month ago. This
is the ninth-largest monthly
increase in the country. Utah
(+23 cents) has the largest
month-over-month
jump,
Idaho (+18 cents) is sec-
ond and Alaska (+12 cents)
is third. North Carolina (-14
cents) has the largest monthly
decrease.
The West Coast contin-
ues to have the highest pump
prices in the nation with all of
the region’s states landing on
the top 10 most expensive list.
California tops the list for the
10th consecutive week with
Hawaii, Washington, Alaska,
By CAROL RYAN DUMAS
Capital Press
Nevada, and Oregon round-
ing out the top six. Oregon
is sixth for the third week in
a row. This week California
drops just below $4 a gallon.
Prices in the region have seen
mostly modest decreases on
the week, with Alaska (+2
cents) seeing the largest jump
and California (-4 cents) see-
ing the largest decline.
The U.S. Energy Informa-
tion Administration’s recent
weekly report for the week
ending on May 17 shows that
West Coast gasoline stocks
grew significantly by 1.3 mil-
lion bbl from the previous
week and now sit at 27.7 mil-
lion bbl. The current level is
2.5 million bbl less than last
year’s level at this time. The
West Coast may see contin-
ued price volatility, as a result
of tight stocks in the region.
Oregon is one of only
eight states where drivers are
paying more than a year ago
to fill up. The national aver-
age is 14 cents less and the
Oregon average is seven cents
more than a year ago, which
is the sixth-largest yearly
increase in the country. Cal-
ifornia (+26 cents), Nevada
(+15 cents), and Arizona (+9
cents) have the greatest year-
over-year increases. Florida
(-31 cents) and Delaware (-28
cents) have the largest year-
over-year decreases.
With the U.S. reaching a
resolution with Mexico and
Canada on steel and alumi-
num tariffs and Japan lift-
ing restriction on imports of
U.S. beef, things are looking
up for U.S. meat exports.
Mexico and Canada
retaliated against U.S. steel
and aluminum tariffs lev-
ied a year ago, with Mex-
ico slapping a 20% tariff
on imports of U.S. pork and
Canada putting a 10% tariff
on imports of prepared beef
products from the U.S.
Pork exports to Mexico
— the top foreign market
for U.S. pork — were down
29% in value year over year
in the first quarter of 2019,
and Canada’s imports of
U.S. beef were down 14%.
The U.S. Meat Export
Federation is encouraged
by Mexico and Canada lift-
ing their retaliatory tariffs,
Dan Halstrom, president
and CEO of USMEF, said
in a media call from the fed-
eration’s spring meeting in
Kansas City, Mo.
USMEF is hopeful the
development will lead to
the quick passage of the
new
US-Mexico-Canada
Agreement, or NAFTA 2.0.
The value of the relation-
ship with Canada and Mex-
ico for U.S. beef, pork and
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with Australia where we
should be able to make some
market-share impact in rela-
tively short order,” he said.
USMEF estimates the
additional access will boost
U.S. beef exports to Japan
by $150 million to $200 mil-
lion per year.
“However,
headwinds
continue on another front
and that’s on the tariff front
for the rest of our beef,” he
said.
Competitors participat-
ing in the Comprehensive
and Progressive Agreement
for Trans-Pacific Partner-
ship enjoy a roughly 12%
tariff advantage in Japan
over U.S. beef, he said.
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Lawmakers add Holocaust
education to school curriculum
SALEM (AP) — Oregon will require
public schools to teach about the Holocaust
under a measure sent to the governor.
Lawmakers unanimously voted Tuesday
to add Holocaust instruction to the school
curriculum starting in the 2019-20 school
year. Ten other states require some level of
genocide education in schools.
A recent poll found that one in five Amer-
ican millennials surveyed were unfamiliar
with the Holocaust.
Some say that those awareness gaps can
have consequences. The Anti-Defamation
League reports that anti-Semitic incidents at
K-12 schools quadrupled from 2015 to 2017.
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PORTLAND (AP) — A teenage student
who was tackled after reportedly bringing
a gun into a classroom at an Oregon high
school has been indicted on a new charge
that claims he was trying to fire the gun.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reported
19-year-old Angel Granados-Diaz was
arraigned May 20 on suspicion of pos-
session of a firearm in a public building,
possession of a loaded firearm in public
and reckless endangering. He pleaded not
guilty.
A Multnomah County grand jury on Fri-
day indicted Granados-Diaz on those three
charges as well as discharge of a firearm at
a school.
Portland police told The Oregonian/
OregonLive that officers found no evidence
Granados-Diaz fired the shotgun while at
Parkrose High School May 17.
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lamb cannot be overstated,
he said.
“I mean it’s immense,
immense opportunity, has
been in the past and will
continue to be in the future,”
he said.
In another trade devel-
opment, Japan has lifted its
longstanding restriction on
U.S. beef from cattle over
30 months of age.
That will open the market
for products such as moun-
tain chain tripe and tongue
on the variety meat side and
tenderloins, strip loins and
chuck rolls on the middle
meat side, he said.
“This is another segment
that competes pretty directly
Teen who brought gun to
high school faces new charge
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USMEF /Capital Press
President and CEO Dan Halstrom addresses USMEF members
at the organization’s spring conference and board of direc-
tors meeting in Kansas City, Mo.
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