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NPPC Urges U.S. Government to Consider Economic Contributions of Pork When Setting Trade Policy
Jim Monroe - National Pork Producers Council

Farmscape for April 4, 2018

The National Pork Producers Council is urging the U.S. government to consider the contributions of the pork sector to the U.S, economy as it deals with issues related to international trade.
The United States is re-working key free trade agreements and exploring the possibility of initiating new bilateral free trade agreements while holding out the possibility of reentering the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
National Pork Producers Council Senior Communications Director Jim Monroe observes the world is moving forward with new free trade agreements without the United States.

Clip-Jim Monroe-National Pork Producers Council:
Right now it seems the administration is focused on renegotiating existing free trade agreements like NAFTA, like the free trade agreement that we have with South Korea.
The markets represented in those agreements are very important to U.S. pork and I think we need to remove the uncertainty around those issues and we need to get busy with the initiation of new free trade agreements with important markets in the Asia-Pacific region like Japan and some of the others.
We are the competitive pork industry in the world, the U.S. pork industry, and when we can compete on a level playing field we win and exports are where all the industry's growth is going to come from.
Those exports not only benefit the U.S. industry but they drive jobs in the United States, jobs obviously for pork production but also on the processing side and in related industries like transportation, the feed industry, insurance, banking so it's very important for American jobs and for and for the continued success of U.S. agriculture on the export front where we have maintained a surplus for some time.

Monroe notes in 2017 the U.S. pork sector exported about 6.5 billion dollars of worth product.
He says the number one priority of U.S. pork is maintaining and expanding export opportunities.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.


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