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Senator Says Trade War Is Costing South Dakota’s Farmers

Senator Says Trade War Is Costing South Dakota’s Farmers

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The current trade war and lack of trade agreements is negatively impacting American Agriculture. South Dakota Senator Mike Rounds says there’s been no bilateral trade deals approved since the President’s been in office. He says farmers and ranchers need those markets.

He says the retaliatory tariffs placed on the U.S. by our trading partners are hitting South Dakota’s producers hard and are impacting the markets.

Rounds says there must be a solution soon to the trade war because the economic impacts are severe.

Rounds says without being engaged in the Trans Pacific Partnership, U.S. farmers and ranchers have lost the opportunity to trade with a half a billion people.

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