Farmers for Free Trade Group Asks for New Path
Farmers for Free Trade, a trade group that opposed the China trade war and the retaliatory tariffs on agriculture it caused, asked President-elect Joe Biden to make trade policy “an immediate priority” after taking office. “At a time when tariffs…
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have cut off markets and farm income is heavily dependent on government payments, we need to forge a new path that builds back long-term, sustainable trade opportunities for farmers. That means trade not aid. It means rebuilding infrastructure to support the ag supply chain, rejoining multi-lateral trade compacts, intensifying and augmenting ongoing bilateral negotiations, supporting biofuels production and eliminating unnecessary foreign barriers that restrict American ag exports like meat and poultry,” Angela Hofmann, co-executive director of the group, said.