{"id":1756,"date":"2020-06-16T12:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2020-11-04T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:21:32","slug":"npc-urges-president-to-stay-the-course-on-china-phase-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/npc-urges-president-to-stay-the-course-on-china-phase-one\/","title":{"rendered":"NPC Urges President to Stay the Course on China Phase One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ahead of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer\u2019s testimony before the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees on Wednesday, NPC and state potato organizations joined more than 200 ag groups on a letter urging President Trump to give China time to fulfill their promises to increase purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;As you know, the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Agreement is critical to both the near- and longer-term success and growth of American agriculture\u2014and the millions of American jobs the agricultural sector sustains,&#8221; wrote the groups. \u201cWhile the current pace of U.S. agricultural exports to China is below the pace needed to meet the Phase One goals, American farmers, ranchers, and rural communities remain optimistic that the purchases under this agreement will accelerate and be fulfilled by China, and that as a result, the American agriculture sector will enjoy important market opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20200616-Letter-To-President-US-China-Phase-One.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nationalpotatocouncil.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/20200616-Letter-To-President-US-China-Phase-One.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a> argues that abandoning the agreement would hurt the already ailing ag sector, much of which is still reeling from losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During his testimonies, Ambassador Lighthizer defended China\u2019s implementation of the agreement, citing the structural changes that have been made, and he repeated several times that he believes China will be able to meet its agricultural purchase commitments within the calendar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPC and state potato organizations joined more than 200 ag groups on a letter urging President Trump to give China time to fulfill their promises to increase purchases of U.S. agricultural commodities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,20,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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