Grassley notes naming a qualified individual to the USDA trade position would allow for the U.S. farmers.Īs USDA data show, nearly 20% of agricultural products are exported and every $1 billion in agricultural exports support 8,000 American jobs. McKinney made clear his goal to travel 1 million miles around the world securing additional market deals for U.S. He was confirmed a few short months later by October 2017. Likewise, after newly confirmed Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue was confirmed in April 2017, one of his first undersecretaries nominated in July of that year was Ted McKinney for the newly created undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs position. If you look back at the last chief ag negotiator under the Trump administration – Gregg Doud – it only took six months into that administration before someone was nominated as Doud was nominated in June 2017, yet not confirmed until March 2018 to help advocate on behalf of U.S. To advance our efforts, we need a chief agricultural negotiator at USTR,” Grassley says. “USCMA was intended to bring us closer together and increase future innovations, but Mexico seems to be going backward on this policy. Related: USMCA implementation shortfalls incite calls for action The Trump administration also announced the intention to initiate trade agreement negotiations with the Republic of Kenya and the United Kingdom.”Įarlier this summer, the Senate Finance Committee held a hearing evaluating the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, specifically hearing concerns about two significant ag issues with dairy trade with Canada and Mexico’s acceptance of biotech traits and potential phase outs of GMO corn for human consumption. Grassley notes while he’s encouraged by the current agricultural export figures, “we need officials in place that can focus on the long-term stability of the relationship. agricultural products to China to be $80 billion. This past year the United States has seen record exports to China as the Trump administration made significant strides in the China Phase One Agreement, which required structural reforms and total exports of U.S. Agriculture trade issues will continue to matriculate and these two positions will have a portfolio that impacts every farmer and producer in the country,” Grassley warns.
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“Every day that passes without qualified leadership in these positions means the United States is playing without a full team against our competitors. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, recently called on President Biden to promptly appoint qualified individuals to the position of chief agricultural negotiator at the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the role of undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs USDA.
As the months roll on, calls continue for new leadership to advocate on behalf of farmers when it comes to ag trade.
But it’s now time for a renewed focus on trade. We already knew coming into the Biden administration it would first focus on domestic issues and the pandemic response.
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