Former President Donald Trump is promising to renew his attack on the U.S. trade deficit should he win a second term by imposing an across-the-board tariff on imports, a prospect that is alarming to farm groups still smarting from his past trade wars.
A government agency has decided that the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, two of the largest gateways for U.S. container exports, need new limits on air pollution and fears are mounting that a proposed rule now being drafted will end up restricting trade.
Overall, American agricultural exports have recovered from the trade war with China that began five years ago, but many specialty crops still suffer from Chinese retaliatory tariffs.
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