Top U.S. Farm Group Warns Against Upending Nafta
- Agriculture needs ‘seat at the table’ as exports threatened
- Farm Bureau joins effort to highlight benefits of free trade
Nafta Negotiations: What Canada, U.S., Mexico Need
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The head of the top U.S. agriculture group said farmers want “a seat at the table” in trade talks to prevent a collapse of deals that would harm their exports, joining the nation’s biggest business lobby in warning against upending the North American Free Trade Agreement.
“We can’t sit aside while other countries work out trade deals among themselves,” Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation in Washington, said in a conference call announcing the group is joining of Farmers for Free Trade, an umbrella group of agricultural organizations and agribusiness promoting exports.