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…
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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…
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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…
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In an email we received this week, a farm journalist, referring to our column on US beef trade, asked what we thought was behind the increase in beef imports. As shown in the column, US beef imports have increased at a faster rate than US beef exports over the last few years (http://tinyurl.com/h78eptv). The reporter’s…
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by Michael Stumo A spike in beef imports has occurred, but consumers are unaware because a global tribunal said last December that we can’t be told where our food comes from. You may be surprised to hear that US farmers and ranchers are harmed by trade agreements. I can understand if you believe the opposite.…
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by Michael Stumo Recent reports that Russia is moving towards a war footing got me thinking about the snake oil salesmen selling trade deals. The globalists said this would not happen after Russia joined the trade utopia called the WTO. They were wrong again. We should not believe them now with the TPP and other…
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As a battle brews on Capitol Hill over the future of catfish inspections, two catfish shipments from China retreated last week, rather than undergo U.S. border inspections. Upon hearing the news, Food & Water Watch reached out to USDA’s Food Safety Inspection System to learn more. [Kate Fried, Patrick Woodall| June 7, 2016 |Food & Water Watch] Today, both…
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership does not have the votes to pass the House, according to Ways & Means Committee member Devin Nunes (R-CA), who on June 9 said the deal must be renegotiated. He also strongly signaled that TPP’s consideration in Congress may take place after the Obama administration leaves the White House, noting negotiations with…
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Trade policy is emerging as a point of tension between the Bernie Sanders team and the party establishment in the drafting of the Democratic Party platform. [Jonathan Swan| June 9, 2016 |The Hill] While Hillary Clinton came out against the Obama administration’s Trans-Pacific Partnership, an Asian trade deal that she previously championed as secretary of State, the Sanders forces…
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On a bleak February day, in plenty of time to impact the 2016 Indiana presidential primary, a flush U.S. corporation named United Technologies abruptly announced that it would be closing two Indiana manufacturing plants employing some 2,100 Americans — and shifting the plants’ operations to Mexico. [Carl M. Cannon| June 9, 2016 |Real Clear Politics]…
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