Trump suggests U.S. farmers face big trade barriers in Mexico. They have actually fallen.

[Judi Lynn]

Trump suggests U.S. farmers face big trade barriers in Mexico. They have actually fallen.
By Kevin Sieff
June 5 at 5:46 PM

MEXICO CITY — This week, days after announcing tariffs on aluminum and steel that affected Mexico and Canada, President Trump went after the two countries again on trade. This time, he claimed that the U.S. agriculture industry has suffered thanks to “big trade barriers against U.S. farmers.”

But an examination of U.S.-Mexico agricultural ties reveals a very different picture.

Since NAFTA took effect in 1994, U.S. agricultural exports to Mexico have quintupled. In the last 10 years alone, they increased from $12.7 billion to $18.6 billion, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.

The USDA’s website offers a blunt contradiction of Trump’s claim: “Under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico and the United States have eliminated all tariffs and quantitative restrictions on agricultural goods.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/06/05/trump-suggests-u-s-farmers-face-big-trade-barriers-in-mexico-they-have-actually-fallen/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.66b536832e08

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142076289

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Tell that to those good old Boys

Hanging out at the Corner Bar in Podunk Iowa. Trump is the best thing since sliced white bread.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. The only impediments that I'm aware of is Mexican farmers' reluctance to substitute

their own seed and contract Monsanto's GMO corn with the pesticides -- and I don't blame them.