Announcing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners Wednesday, President Donald Trump stressed the importance of fairness in export markets for agriculture.
“With today’s actions, we’re also standing up for our great farmers and ranchers who are brutalized by nations all over the world, brutalized,” said Trump, singling out countries such as Canada for its tariffs on dairy products, the European Union for barriers to U.S. poultry, Australia for beef, and Japan for rice. “When you look a little bit, it’s not a pretty picture, and we don’t like it and it’s not fair. It’s not fair to our farmers. It’s not fair to our country…And I say, why are we doing this? Why are we doing this? I mean, at what point do we say you’ve got to work for yourselves and you’ve got to, this is why we have the big deficits.”
President Trump announces reciprocal tariffs - agriculture 3:15