Lawmakers push USTR, USDA officials on market access, losses

Members of the House livestock and foreign agriculture subcommittee pressed top administration agricultural trade officials Gregg Doud and Ted McKinney on Tuesday about how to ensure increased market access for U.S. agriculture and address the market losses stemming from the ongoing dispute with China. Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) asked Doud and McKinney for details on President Trump’s announcement by tweet that Mexico had also agreed to additional purchases of U.S. agricultural products. Doud, the chief agricultural negotiator at the Office...