date:Jun 13, 2014
it can protect its farmers, US agriculture will be cheated out of billions in annual sales to Japan. Further, the precedent established likely would diminish the value to pork producers and the other so-called sensitive sectors of all future FTAs. The European Union and future FTA partners, such as China and the Philippines, will use the Japan deal as the starting point in their negotiations with the United States.
This is the most important commercial issue ever to face US pork producers, Spr