US Ag Exporters Hoping to Move On From 2025’s ‘Self-Inflicted Wounds’
American farmers, chemical companies and other exporters of agricultural products are hoping to move on from a year that saw them put squarely in the geopolitical crosshairs.
President Donald Trump’s peripatetic tariffs, trade wars and maritime policies put producers not only at a competitive disadvantage in world markets, but for a time threatened to make it unprofitable to even load a ship.
“If you’re in trade and transportation, what do you really need?” asked Peter Friedmann, executive director of the Agriculture Transportation Coalition (AgTC), addressing a seminar of the Traffic Club of New York Nov. 25. “You need trucks...
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