Source: BLOOMBERG, 3/18/19


A U.S. agriculture official took a swipe at the European Union’s import policies in agriculture, a sector America has been urging the bloc to address in trade talks. The EU is using “non science-based” and “backward-looking” trade protectionist measures when it comes to its farm-good imports, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s chief agriculture negotiator Gregg Doud. “It’s shocking to me to see the direction Europe is heading when it comes to the use of science and technology in agriculture,” Doud told the National Grain and Feed Association’s annual convention in Amelia Island, Florida. 

For more of this story, click here.