USTR Urged to Push TPP Return and Pork Export to Central America
Thursday Apr 29th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. Some agricultural groups would like U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to reconsider some previous trade deals, including the Trans Pacific Partnership.
According to www.agweb.com, the new Comprehensive and Progress Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership was formed after the U.S. withdrew from TPP talks during the Trump administration.
The trade pact now includes 11 countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico and Japan.
The Trump Administration abandoned the TPP in favor of a one-on-one approach.
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USTR Urged to Push TPP Return and Pork Export to Central America
Thursday Apr 29th, 2021 From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update. Some agricultural groups would like U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai to reconsider some previous trade deals, including the Trans Pacific Partnership.
According to www.agweb.com, the new Comprehensive and Progress Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership was formed after the U.S. withdrew from TPP talks during the Trump administration.
The trade pact now includes 11 countries, including Australia, Canada, Mexico and Japan.
The Trump Administration abandoned the TPP in favor of a one-on-one approach.
Vietnam represents one of the most significant near-term export market opportunity for U.S. pork. However, the United States faces several unwarranted tariff and non-tariff barriers that prevent U.S. pork producers from supplying his major pork consuming nation which right now is dealing with African swine fever in its domestic herds, says National Pork Producers Council’s President Jen Sorenson, communications director for Iowa Select Farms in West Des Moines, Iowa.
During the NPPC Legislative Action Conference held in mid-April, NPPC members urged action from the U.S. government as lawmakers were urged to sign a letter co-sponsored by Reps. Ron Kind, D-Wis., Darin LaHood, R-Ill., Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and Jim Costa, D-Calif., to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai, seeking her support for enhanced Vietnamese market access for U.S. pork.
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