A coalition of more than 120 ag industry groups penned a letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative asking for a full 16-year renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
“Trade cooperation between the United States, Mexico, and Canada affords multifold benefits, underscoring the need to uphold and maintain the agreement text of USMCA as written without major adjustment,” the groups wrote. “Without the economic might that this trilateral agreement affords, farmer incomes would be harmed, as the industry would be saddled with additional and burdensome costs related to transportation and compliance measures.”
Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, USA (R-CALF) also submitted a letter of its own, outlining reforms to the agreement. “USMCA failed to correct harmful provisions inherited from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and continues to disadvantage U.S. cattle producers,” the group said.
