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“We find the EU a very difficult place to do business and so we hope ... the reset button can at least be considered,” he said, defending U.S. poultry in particular.
“We’d love to do a bilateral with Japan. We’ll just have to see how the other trade agreements transpire and then we’ll find that opening in whatever form it takes.”
Ahead of a Tuesday meeting with Lighthizer, the senator says “from my point of view ... this indicates a pessimistic view of how things are going.”
“I just said, ‘I know you feel that the Rust Belt really came to your side, but these are your people as well.’”
“The administration knows very well where farmers and the food and ag industries stand, but I would advise anybody to be prepared with contingencies.”
The U.S. citrus industry last month moved to vacate an Agriculture Department rule allowing lemon imports from northwest Argentina.
Food & Water Watch laments what it calls a “flawed system.”
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Wednesday expressed disappointment with the progress made in the first three rounds of North American Free Trade Agreement talks and said he expected the U.S., Canada and Mexico to make their positions clearer at the next round
Ted McKinney has led Indiana's agriculture department since 2014.
The Trump administration is weighing a “reciprocal” response to Brazil’s imposition of a tariff-rate quota on ethanol imports, Bob Dinneen, president and CEO of the Renewable Fuels Association, said on Tuesday.
President Trump's pick for a new trade under secretary post at the Agriculture Department told the Senate Agriculture Committee on Tuesday that one of his priorities, if confirmed, will be to address non-scientific barriers that U.S. producers face in foreign markets.
Taiwanese officials this week signed letters of intent to purchase almost $3 billion worth of U.S. soybeans, corn and wheat during a trade mission that also involved talks with U.S. officials about the prospects for a bilateral free trade agreement, as well as issues with U.S. pork imports.
“Every ag organization or commodity group has been behind this gentleman, so I think without question we’ll move him expeditiously.”
The first priority, they write, is to “get off the sidelines and get back in the business of negotiating trade agreements.”
“It's really hard to prepare if you are trying to be productive at the table but you're afraid your partner will walk away.”
Lighthizer hails the move as a way to “balance trade and deepen our trade relations with an important Asia-Pacific partner.”
“The challenge is he's looking at the trade deficit that's occurred after NAFTA, primarily in autos and auto parts. How do you reconcile those two?”
Numerous U.S. food and agricultural groups are urging the Office of the U.S. Trade representative not to move forward with a NAFTA proposal that would enable seasonal produce growers to seek antidumping and countervailing duties because they say Mexico and Canada could retaliate against the U.S.