USDA Nominee Wants More US Export Access in Europe, Other Regions
Luke Lindberg, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be undersecretary of agriculture for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, said April 29 that he would seek to lower barriers to U.S. agricultural exports in a wide range of places, including the EU, which “routinely shuts out our products at the altar of non-scientific based claims.”
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Lindberg, president and chief executive officer of South Dakota Trade, told the Senate Agriculture Committee he also would address ethanol tariffs in Brazil, obstacles to corn exports to China, problems selling dairy and wheat to Canada, and difficulties selling pork to Brazil, India, Jamaica, Namibia, Nigeria and Thailand.
Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., urged Lindberg to address non-tariff barriers to U.S. peanut exports, and Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., said the U.S. needs to secure fair treatment for its biofuels in Brazil and India, soybeans in China, beef in the U.K. and pork in Vietnam.