Chinese retaliation on U.S. pork exports will harm the rural economy

[workinclasszero]

Chinese retaliation on U.S. pork exports will harm the rural economy
Last year, the U.S. pork industry exported $1.1 billion of product to China, making that country the No. 2 value market for U.S. pork.
National Pork Producers Council | Mar 23, 2018

The National Pork Producers Council warned that possible Chinese tariffs on U.S. pork could have a significant negative impact on rural America. China has indicated it will impose the duties in response to U.S. tariffs and restrictions — announced today — being placed on a host of Chinese goods.

“We sell a lot of pork to China, so higher tariffs on our exports going there will harm our producers and undermine the rural economy,” says NPPC President Jim Heimerl, a pork producer from Johnstown, Ohio. “No one wins in these tit-for-tat trade disputes, least of all the farmers and the consumers.”

Last year, the U.S. pork industry exported $1.1 billion of product to China, making that country the No. 2 value market for U.S. pork.

http://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/business/chinese-retaliation-us-pork-exports-will-harm-rural-economy

[dalton99a]

1. "We had no idea the president would contemplate a trade war!"

[workinclasszero]

4. Ikr?

What a bunch of rubes!

[dalton99a]

6. Yep

[Wwcd]

2. Trump the genius, turns the Red States Blue for us!

He's making our job easier.

[workinclasszero]

5. Yup

Stable genius at work!

[jberryhill]

3. Paging Chuck Grassley - Please pull your head out of your ass and pick up the courtesy phone

[workinclasszero]

7. Grassley is to busy running for cover right now!

[ProudLib72]

12. Who? What?

[GusBob]

8. It's not rocket science is it?

China doesn't need analytics

It's fricken soybeans and hogs

[Yavin4]

9. Americans are getting a crash course in global economics

The hard, painful way.

[roody]

10. Hog confinement and other factory farms

Are destroying the environment in Iowa. Over 700 polluted waterways. Forget swimming in our lakes.

[workinclasszero]

11. Factory farming of livestock is an environmental disaster

I must agree.

But Trump was the god emperor of these idiots.

Their god wasn't supposed to hurt them, only PoC, SJWs and libs!

[ProudLib72]

13. I have a brilliant plan

Let the government subsidize the pig farmers. Then, when we elect a Dem president, those tariffs are abolished, and those subsidies are removed, let the pig farmers complain about how awful the Dems are. It's a winning strategy I tell ya!