Ways & Means Subcommittee Launches First Of Several Hearings On Trade Policy Impacts

The House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee this week launched the “first in a series of hearings about how U.S. trade policies affect specific sectors of the economy,” according to an email by press secretary Lauren Blair Aronson, leading off with the agriculture sector. The June 14 hearing on expanding U.S. agriculture exports and eliminating agricultural trade barriers turned into a major show of support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership from five witnesses representing producers of dairy, pork and horticulture products,...