Over 70 U.S. Lawmakers including South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson have written to the U.S. Trade Ambassador seeking support for enhanced market access for pork in Vietnam. South Dakota Pork Producers Council’s President Shane Odegaard thanks the Representatives for their support as Vietnam is an important market for U.S. pork.
He says it’s always difficult to overcome tariff and non-tariff trade barriers and having the assistance of the U.S.T.R. is key in working to eliminate those.
Odegaard says it was helpful last year when Vietnam reduced its tariff rates from 15 percent to 10 percent for frozen U.S. pork products and he’s hopeful the USTR can build on that in discussions with the Vietnamese.
The Congresspeople noted in their letter to the U.S. Trade Ambassador Katherine Tai that the United States is barley scratching the surface of its export potential to Vietnam.
