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Specialty crop industry seeks NAFTA reform
Jul 27, 2017, 16:13 PM
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A specialty crop leader says the current trade environment under NAFTA has not fared well for many fruit and vegetable growers around the country.
“While our friends in the grain and the meat industry have fared well with NAFTA, the fresh fruit and vegetable industry has been taking it on the cuff from the standpoint of unfair competition coming into the country.”
Reggie Brown with the Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association says the United States’ fruit and vegetable trade deficit with Mexico exceeded $5.3 billion as of last year.
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