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House Members Call for Strong SPS Provisions in Trade Agreements

2013-08-26 18:44:00| National Hog Farmer

By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC Congressman Tim Griffin (R-AR) and Ron Kind (D-WI) along with 76 other Congressmen wrote U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman on the significant potential for American agricultural exports to expand in the Asia-Pacific and European trade regions. The Congressmen emphasized the need for USTR and the administration to negotiate the strongest possible sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in both the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) currently under negotiation. read more

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