WASHINGTON (June 14, 2016) – The nearly 200,000 family farmer and rancher-led National Farmers Union (NFU) continued to advocate for fair and balanced trade in official testimony submitted for the record to the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade. Today, the subcommittee held a hearing to discuss expanding U.S. agriculture trade and eliminating barriers…
China is not a market economy, much less a free-market economy. Still, the U.S. continues to treat China as a free-market economy, with the hope that it will somehow encourage them to begin playing by the same rules governing the rest of the world. But, alas, it’s not happening. Here is a short list of…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 15, 2016 Contact: Paola Masman, Media Director 202-688-5145 ext 2, [email protected] Government report: agricultural trade balance worsens by 62 percent from last year despite trade agreements A new report by the US Department of Agriculture reveals that the US agricultural trade balance is drastically worsening. Agricultural exports are down and imports are up from…
