TPP NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 NPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94 TPP Sat, 15 May 2021 04:59:58 +0000 https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Jeremy Bernfeld After publicly stumping for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, many in the agriculture industry were forced to re-group Monday after President Donald Trump formally backed out of the trade pact . https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/farm-groups-anxious-trump-pulls-us-out-tpp-trade-deal 55 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Tue, 07 Mar 2017 19:15:51 +0000 Farm Groups Anxious As Trump Pulls US Out Of TPP Trade Deal Jeremy Bernfeld After publicly stumping for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, many in the agriculture industry were forced to re-group Monday after President Donald Trump formally backed out of the trade pact . During a rancorous election campaign that saw both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates vow to scrap the TPP, large farm groups were among just a handful of political organizations working to drum up support for the deal. The TPP was drafted as one of the world’s largest trade deals and included 11 other countries along the Pacific Rim. The American Farm Bureau Federation claimed in its analysis that the TPP could have increased U.S. agricultural exports by billions of dollars a year. After Trump officially pulled the plug on U.S. participation in the deal, the AFBF urged the president back to the negotiating table. “American agriculture is virtually always a winner when trade agreements remove barriers to U.S. crop and livestock exports because we impose very few https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/farm-groups-anxious-trump-pulls-us-out-tpp-trade-deal-0 286 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Tue, 24 Jan 2017 05:00:00 +0000 Farm Groups Anxious As Trump Pulls US Out Of TPP Trade Deal Kristofor Husted Turn on the TV and you can barely escape it: presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle deriding free trade agreements, like the pending Trans-Pacific Partnership. The TPP is a bum deal that will hurt the U.S. economy and especially low-wage workers, according to pols from Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton. But if you venture into the Midwest and ask a farmer about the TPP, you’re likely to get a different answer. “This pending TPP trade negotiation, to me, is hugely important for agricultural commodities, but specifically for beef,” said Mike John, a cattle rancher in Huntsville, Mo. John, along with many Midwest farmers and ranchers are bucking the political trend to dog the TPP. A coalition of more than 200 hundred agriculture groups recently drafted an open letter urging congressional leaders to approve the deal, saying the trade deal will help U.S. farmers stay competitive in an increasingly crowded world market. Free trade agreements remove tariffs on products we import, https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org/post/bucking-trend-midwest-farmers-advocate-tpp-free-trade-deal 155 as https://www.harvestpublicmedia.org Tue, 19 Apr 2016 14:20:00 +0000 Bucking The Trend, Midwest Farmers Advocate For TPP Free Trade Deal