Ag groups to White House: Reconsider TPP and wrap up NAFTA talks

From DTN

Agricultural groups started the White House’s infrastructure and budget week on Monday by focusing on—trade.

Farm groups coming together to call themselves the Asia-Pacific Working Group, which is parts of the U.S. Food and Agriculture Dialogue for Trade, sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer as the Asia-Pacific Working Group jumped on comments from President Donald Trump that he was interested in working on bilateral trade agreements involving the countries within the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The president had said the U.S. would negotiate with these countries either individually “or perhaps as a group if it is in the interests of all.” Read the rest of the story here.