Source: Brad Haire, FARM PROGRESS, 5/8/19


Georgia fruit and vegetable growers say the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement as currently negotiated will damage their industry, and a recent economic analysis confirms their concerns. The policy brief 'The Impact of the USMCA on Georgia’s Small Fruit and Vegetable Industries’ was released April 22 from the University of Georgia. Though USMCA might be a positive deal overall for U.S. agricultural interests, the report says the USMCA as written “exposes U.S. fruit and vegetable growers to a high risk of substantial harm through unfair competition from Mexican imports … unless some provisions of the USMCA are renegotiated.”

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