The National Pork Producers Council is concerned about President Trump’s threat to shut down the Mexican border.
NPPC spokesman Jim Monroe tells Brownfield, “Cutting off trade entirely would be catastrophic.”
He says producers are already feeling the impact of strained trade relations with Mexico, where the U.S. sold nearly 1.5 billion dollars worth of pork last year. “That’s one of our largest export markets and what we really need to happen is have the metal tariffs lifted so that the retaliatory tariffs on U.S.
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