Source: SOUTHERN FARM NETWORK, 5/16/18

Hearings are underway in Washington on a proposed list of Chinese products the U.S. has targeted with 25 percent tariff. The three-day event features testimony from more than 100 witnesses. One of those testifying is farmer Michelle Erickson-Jones, a member of Farmers for Free Trade, who says the U.S. farm community is already feeling the effects of the threatened tariff response by China. The Montana rancher says the market interruptions can “devastate ag prices and drive U.S. farmers out of business.”

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