Ag groups write letter to US Commerce Secretary about NAFTA threat on ag economy
Story Date: 10/30/2017

 

Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 10/27/17

If NAFTA is canceled, the groups contend it would result in a decline of "at least 50,000 jobs in the U.S. food and agriculture industry, and a drop in GDP of $13 billion from the farm sector alone." That was spelled out in a letter - one sent not to Trump but instead to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who recently equated a withdrawal from NAFTA for agriculture as something of an "empty threat..."

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