August 29, 2023 - The American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) is pleased to announce that Gina Tumbarello, AFIA's senior director of global strategies, policy and trade, has been reappointed to serve on the US Foreign Agricultural Service's Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) for Trade in Grains, Feed, Oilseeds and Planting Seeds. Tubarello has represented AFIA members on the ATAC since 2014 and provides valuable technical advice and information about US animal food products and the industry to the secretary of agriculture and US trade representative (USTR).
Tumbarello joins Constance Cullman, AFIA's president and CEO, who has been serving on the Agricultural Policy Advisory Committee (APAC) since 2020.
"Last year, the US animal food industry exported over $11 billion worth of feed and pet food products," said AFIA President and CEO Constance Cullman. "The AFIA's ability to provide ongoing industry representation to the US trade negotiators is paramount to ensuring continued and further global market access for the US trade negotiators is paramount to ensuring continued and further global market access for the US animal food industry and our vision for a healthier world through advanced animal nutrition. We are thrilled to continue being a voice for the country's nearly 5650 animal food manufacturers."
Congress established the advisory committee system in 1974 to ensure the 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.
Tumbarello will serve along with the other committee members until August 2027.
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