> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://review.iffw.sg/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # USDA Launches Biofuels Trade Outlook, Citing Record 2.2 Billion Gallon Ethanol Export Year - URL: https://review.iffw.sg/usda-launches-biofuels-trade-outlook-citing-record-2-2-billion-gallon-ethanol-export-year/ - Published: 2026-09-18T00:30:23.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-18T00:30:22.000Z - Description: USDA launched its American Biofuels Trade Outlook, a four-pillar export strategy, citing a record 2.2 billion gallons of ethanol shipped worldwide in 2025 worth $4.7 billion. The plan targets EU crop-based biofuel restrictions and aims to counter Brazil's influence at ICAO and IMO. - Author: Editor - Tags: News, America, Ethanol The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially released the American Biofuels Trade Outlook, a four-part strategy aimed at expanding export opportunities for U.S. biofuel producers, building on what USDA describes as the strongest year for ethanol exports in U.S. history. American farmers shipped a record 2.2 billion gallons of ethanol worldwide in 2025, worth USD 4.7 billion, and USDA frames the new strategy as ensuring that momentum continues rather than as a response to any specific setback. ### What the Officials Said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins first previewed the strategy on 15 September while addressing the 17th Annual Growth Energy Biofuels Summit in Washington, before USDA's formal press release confirmed it the following day. Rollins credited the 2025 export record to "the hard work of America's farmers and the powerful leadership of President Trump," and framed the Trade Outlook as USDA's plan to ensure that success continues. Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Luke Lindberg separately stated that the department is focused on increasing ethanol blending internationally and ensuring U.S. farmers benefit from every new trade deal. ### The Four Pillars, One at a Time The first pillar targets increasing on-road ethanol blending internationally. USDA will identify what Rollins called breakthrough markets in Latin America and Southeast Asia, describing them as prime for E10 adoption, while separately working to resolve implementation challenges in roughly 20 markets that already have E10 policies, aimed at securing continued, reliable access to those existing export markets rather than only chasing new ones. The second pillar targets restrictions other countries place on U.S. crop-based biofuels specifically. Rollins named the European Union directly, stating it currently restricts crop-based biofuels from supplying its transportation fuel demand, and described such restrictions as limiting the potential uses, and therefore the growth opportunities, for U.S. biofuel exports. USDA plans to pursue continued research and technical work aimed at broadening the international applications of crop-based biofuels specifically, across road transportation, aviation and marine fuel markets. The third pillar focuses on reaching untapped and high-impact markets using USDA's existing Market Access Programs and the America First Trade Promotion Program. Rollins named India specifically for on-road ethanol expansion, alongside longer-term partners including Indonesia, Japan and Vietnam. The fourth pillar is the most directly aimed at multilateral institutions: accelerating U.S. engagement with the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization, explicitly to secure fair treatment for U.S. biofuels and to prevent what Rollins described as competing nations, naming Brazil specifically, from shaping restrictive global regulations at those bodies. ### Why the EU and Brazil Are Named as the Two Specific Obstacles The strategy's second and fourth pillars point at two different kinds of barrier through two different named countries. The EU's crop-based biofuel restrictions are a market-access barrier, limiting where US product can be sold once produced. Brazil's role at ICAO and IMO is a standard-setting barrier: as a major biofuel producer itself, with its own ethanol and SAF ambitions covered elsewhere in this series, Brazil has a direct interest in how global aviation and maritime biofuel rules get written, and Rollins is framing that interest as a competitive threat to U.S. producers rather than a neutral regulatory process. ### Why This Timing Matters Rollins made the announcement one day after the European Commission, on 14 September, extended trade surveillance measures on fuel ethanol imports into the EU from several countries including the United States, through September 2029\. The Trade Outlook does not reference that specific EU action, but its second pillar's direct naming of EU crop-based biofuel restrictions lands immediately after a fresh instance of exactly that kind of EU trade measure being extended rather than relaxed. ### What the Strategy Explicitly Does Not Cover Rollins framed the policy's domestic rationale around supporting corn and soybean farmers, strengthening agricultural sustainability, and creating rural jobs, tying the export-expansion strategy to domestic farm economics rather than presenting it as a climate or emissions-reduction policy in its own right. No specific export volume targets, funding figures, or implementation timeline were announced alongside the four pillars. *Source:* [*U.S. Department of Agriculture*](https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2026/09/16/usda-announces-new-american-biofuels-trade-outlook-building-record-2025-exports?ref=review.iffw.sg)*, 16 September 2026.*