The agreement requires that sound science be used when evaluating agricultural imports into China. Specifically, the agreement ends the decade-long prohibition that China had against importing Pacific Northwest wheat. It provides for US government certification of meat packing facilities. And it eliminates unreasonable technical barriers to the export of citrus products from the United States to China. We explained to President Jiang that now is the time to buy our agricultural products.
Words are fine.
Agreements are fine. But what matters is the result concrete commercial purchases. I would like to put a copy of that letter, along with a list of the 53 Senators who signed it, into the Record. This is a critical next step in securing the implementation of the agriculture agreement. I will join with Montana agriculture, Montana business, and Montana economic development officials in Great Falls this week to meet this important delegation, to provide them with information about the opportunities Montana presents, and to offer them high quality and competitive agricultural products and value-added food products.