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In a trade war over steel, US farmers could be collateral damage

Posted by Jonathan Barker on March 9, 2018

WKMG News 6 3/9/2018

“There’s nothing to win,” said Daniel Sumner, an agricultural economics professor at University of California, Davis. “There’s only stuff to lose.” The United States’ trading partners know that farm products are a good way to squeeze a politically powerful constituency, particularly for Republicans.

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