Farmers for Free Trade

Farmers for Free Trade announced Wednesday the Motorcade for Trade tour. The RV tour will cover 11 states and 3,500 miles across the country in support of the USMCA. The first two-week leg of the tour, which will take place over the two-week April Congressional recess, will include stops across the Midwest at family farms, coffee shops, Ag equipment dealers, small businesses, and other locations..

Many in Ag, and even those outside of Ag, applauded the recent announcement that the U.S. and China would halt any further escalation in their trade dispute and try to resolve their differences.  The U.S. had scheduled more tariff increases for January of 2019.  Fa...

Farmers for Free Trade Executive Director Brian Kuehl said he’s unhappy the White House is ratcheting up the trade war. While more tariffs on Chinese goods are set to go into effect in two weeks, he says the President is telling farmers to be patient as prices plummet and their markets are overtaken by foreign competitors.  ...

More tariffs have officially gone into effect between China and the U.S, worth $34 billion, and Farmers for Free Trade says it’s hitting producers directly in the pocketbook.  Brian Kuehl is the group’s Executive Director, and he said the evidence of pain from a now multi-front trade war is multiplying every day.   “From China ...

Farmers for Free Trade is again placing advertisements on cable television showing an on-the-ground look at how current trade disputes are damaging export markets for U.S. farmers.   In conjunction with the U.S. Apple Association, the advertisement targets the retaliations to the Section 232 tariffs that include U.S. a...

Swift retaliation is expected against U.S. farm goods, after President Trump announced Friday that a 25-percent tariff on $50 billion in technology goods from China starts on July 6th.  “Farmers for Free Trade” Executive Director Brian Kuehl said the threat of heavy retaliatory tariffs by China on U.S. farm exports isn’t theo...

Farmers for Free Trade call the framework of a trade agreement between the U.S. and China as a good first step toward ending tensions that have hurt American agriculture.  The group applauds the Trump Administration’s focus on supporting U.S. agricul...

Farmers for Free Trade released a new report that highlights the significant impact that Chinese retaliation from steel and aluminum tariffs will have on a number of U.S. industries.  The report shows that many American commodities will be hit hard, including U.S. wine, ...

Farmers for Free Trade is gearing up for a $500,000 ad campaign for a new television ad warning against the aggressive trade policies of President Trump. Farmers for Free Trade says those policies make agriculture a prime target against trade retaliation...

The Farmers for Free Trade Group released a report this week that highlights how American farmers and ranchers have paid the price in trade disputes.  Consequences usually happen in the form of retaliatory tariffs.  The report comes out as the Trump Administration makes a final decision on placing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports.   That ...