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The president of the National Pork Producers Council says it’s more important now than ever for the US to negotiate a free trade agreement with Japan. Ken Maschhoff says today’s announcement that the European Union and Japan have reached a trade pact puts American products at a competitive disadvantage.

NPPC is renewing its request for the Trump Administration to obtain a Trans-Pacific Partnership-type deal with Japan.  The organization strongly supported the TPP, which would have nearly eliminated Japan’s tariffs on pork. 

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