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  • March 2-5, 2025 | Long Beach Convention Center

Peter Friedmann

Agriculture Transportation Coalition

Executive Director

Peter Friedmann led formation of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition when agriculture exporters sought assistance in dealing with transportation challenges. The AgTC is now the voice for a broad cross-section of U.S. agriculture exporters, importers and their service providers who require competitive ocean, rail, truck and port transportation services in order to maintain and grow foreign market share.

The Journal of Commerce declared the AgTC as “the principal voice of U.S. agriculture exporters in transportation policy.”

As Executive Director of the AgTC, Peter conducts Ag Shipper Workshops around the country, Weekly Zoom Updates, and is a frequent speaker at major transportation conferences. He is one of the principal advocates of shipper interests before Federal and state agencies, Congress, ports and labor; instrumental in drafting and passing of Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.

Peter, graduate of University of Washington Law School, served as Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation where he drafted the Ocean Shipping Act, Harbor Maintenance Fee/Trust Fund for port dredging, Jones Act and other transport legislation.  

Sessions With Peter Friedmann

Wednesday, 5 March

  • 09:00am - 09:45am (PST) / 05/mar/2025 05:00 pm - 05/mar/2025 05:45 pm

    A Conversation With "Our Man in DC" Peter Friedmann

    The trade, supply chain and logistics communities are just beginning to understand the radically different approach to trade policy to be adapted by the second Trump administration, where “the next US president and his team see trade in political, rather than narrowly economic terms” according to the FT. Ignoring warnings of the inflationary impact, Trump even before taking office on Jan. 20 has threatened to unleash a massive trade war, including across-the-board 25 per cent tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada, 100% tariffs on the nine BRICS nations, and “an additional 10 per cent tariff, above any additional tariffs” on China. Given his first term record in where he imposed tariffs on solar panels, washing machines, steel, aluminum and separately set and escalated tariffs on $60 billion worth of goods imported from China which the Biden administration left intact. The supply chain implications t led China’s share of US containerized imports to fall from 46.6% in 2017 to 40.4% in the first ten months of 2024, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. In this one-on-one conversation with longtime Washington lawyer Peter Friedmann, who advises a number of trade groups including CONECT, WESCCON and the Agriculture Transportation Coalition – the AgTC, we will discuss the potential impact of the Trump trade policy on US trade flows, supply chains and freight transport.

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