News / White House can't see that trade war will hit US agriculture hardest

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Chinese retaliation to US tariffs will hit the “low-margin” agricultural sector the hardest, and White House officials haven’t grasped the full impact, say experts.  

Peter Friedmann, executive director at the Agriculture Transport Coalition, told operator Port of Long Beach’s Port Update he was “very concerned” for US agriculture exporters in a trade war with China.  

“We recall the tariffs imposed six, seven years ago, against China. It retaliated and inflicted a lot of injury on US agriculture exports, to the ...