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Wiesemeyer: Agriculture’s top policy concern is trade
Policy analyst Jim Wiesemeyer says the top concern among agricultural interests about the Trump Administration is trade policy.
“They fear that agriculture could be collateral damage if there’s any ‘give’ in forthcoming bilateral trade agreement talks – Canada, Mexico, or a new NAFTA, or with some of the countries that were in the withdrawn Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement,” said Wiesmeyer, in an interview with Brownfield Ag News Wednesday. “They feel that they could have less market access as a result of that.”
There’s concern about President Trump’s plan to renegotiate NAFTA because trade negotiations take time and bring with them uncertainty, according to Wiesemeyer, a senior vice-president with Informa Economics focusing on farm and trade policy.
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