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"U.S. farm groups, including the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association and National Pork Producers Council, have been pleading with the Trump administration to adopt a different strategy of holding trading partners accountable. They argue farmers and ranchers are already dealing with a four-year slump in commodity prices, and U.S. officials should instead be focusing on opening new markets to help boost their bottom lines.
Instead, the Trump administration has forged ahead, and requested that Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue devise a plan to make up for U.S. producers’ lost profits and ensure the agriculture industry doesn’t bear the brunt of retaliation alone"
https://www.politico.com/story/2…
It will be interesting to look a map of how the global supply chain has been reconfigured this time next year.
- China will pay up, this non issue. Why? USA buys 1/2 trillion in China goods, and if USA does not buy Chinese good, they are fuked not USA.robotron3k
- Diff with China is, it's a dictatorship with long term vision. If the chicanery out of the WH continues and ordinary Americans hurt, they're likely to vote.mandomafioso
- ok robo, remind me again how many trillions we borrowed from china and japan?BonSeff
- so trump is making it impossible for American Companies to do business outside of the US, essentially eliminating a 7.3 billion person market? way to go!_niko