In comments filed with the U.S. Trade Representative, R-CALF USA laid out how the world marketplace for cattle and beef is one of the most grossly distorted markets of any sector, and how the inability to achieve any semblance of balance between disparate tariffs, subsidies and sanitary/phytosanitary standards has wreaked havoc upon, and threatens to destroy, the U.S. live cattle industry.
R-CALF says the U.S. live cattle industry has historically been the single largest segment of U.S. agriculture, which also provides the economic cornerstones for most rural communities across the United States.
"We are encouraging the USTR to initiate fundamental trade reforms that will address the systemic problems that are associated with global beef and cattle market distortions," said R-CALF CEO Bill Bullard. "The U.S. cattle industry has been devastated by the failure of current trade policies, and the future of the U.S. cattle industry hangs in the balance."
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