The next round of the North American Free Trade Agreement talks get underway in Canada this week. Last week, a new coalition of 30 ag groups was formed to call for the support of NAFTA called Americans for Farmers and Families. National Pork Producers Council CEO Neil Dierks is a board member and says their main concern is keeping protections in place for U.S agriculture in the NAFTA renegotiation.
Dierks says their coalition will be lobbying the President and some members of Congress to convince them to keep a strong NAFTA deal in place, that benefits American agriculture.
He says NAFTA is critical for the U.S. pork industry, but so is the U.S. Korean FTA which is also being renegotiated. Dierks says their coalition wants both trade deals left intact.
Dierks says AFF is not against modernizing NAFTA but wants to ensure that the gains made for U.S. agriculture are preserved in the renegotiations and the agreement is not abandoned.
