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NASDA urges Congress and Administration to work together on USMCA and resolve 232 tariffs
Story Date: 2/27/2019
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Source: PRESS RELEASE, 2/26/19
The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture voted at its annual Winter Policy Conference today to urge Congress and the Administration to work together to ensure the successful ratification and implementation of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada (USMCA) trade agreement, and to resolve section 232 tariffs.
“To provide certainty for North American farmers and ranchers’ businesses, urgency must be applied to ratifying USMCA,” said NASDA CEO Dr. Barb Glenn. “It is also critical that the Administration resolve section 232 tariffs, so farmers and ranchers can truly realize net improvements in market access and other benefits USMCA was negotiated to provide.”
“As the chief agricultural officials in their states, NASDA members oversee state export promotion programs, and agree with senior agricultural officials from Mexico and Canada that USMCA modernizes significant aspects of our trading relationships and strengthens the North American market as a whole,” Glenn said. “It’s important we complete this agreement so that we can move our focus to new trade agreements and open additional markets for American agriculture.”
NASDA is a nonpartisan, nonprofit association which representants the elected and appointed commissioners, secretaries and directors of the departments of agriculture in all fifty states and four U.S. territories. NASDA grows and enhances agriculture by forging partnerships and creating consensus to achieve sound policy outcomes between state departments of agriculture, the federal government and stakeholders.
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