Our nation does and we have been successful in getting other countries to implement 11 agricultural WTO rulings that the U.S. brought against them. The European Union stands alone in its unwillingness to implement the beef and banana rulings. However, we now have carousel retaliation, a powerful tool that Farm Bureau succeeded in writing into U.S. law this year. This tactic imposes tariffs on a changing list of specific European agricultural imports, a strategy feared by exporters there. Getting the current administration to implement carousel retaliation remains our biggest challenge.
Global trade involves far more than moving products.
It also involves the movement of ideas and values that improve the daily lives of citizens in the participating nations. Farm Bureau is committed to working for negotiated solutions that expand market opportunities for our farm products and solutions that keep farmers on the farm. Fairer and freer trade is our goal, for this century and this millennium.