Ag groups write to Lighthizer welcoming engagement with TPP countries
President Trump’s new openness to a deal with the Trans-Pacific Partnership countries is being warmly received by agriculture groups, many of which strongly supported the deal that Trump withdrew from in one of his first acts of office. In a Feb. 8 letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, the Asia-Pacific Market Working Group of the U.S. Food and Agriculture Dialogue for Trade welcomed Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Dvaos, Switzerland, in which Trump said he would...