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US needs to focus on other trade agreements
Nov 30, 2017, 14:11 PM
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An associate professor at the University of Illinois says the US needs to focus on trade agreements other than just the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Kathy Baylis says while NAFTA is important to US agriculture, there is export growth in other countries that needs just as much attention.
She tells Brownfield that trade with southeast Asian, Japan, and South Korea is also beneficial.
“There are these other markets where we’ve got a foothold and we have some real potential to expand, but they’re also busy negotiating trade agreements among themselves and we’re the ones saying we’re not interested,” she says.
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