During the recent USAPEEC Annual Conference held during the last week of October, USAPEEC president Jim Sumner reviewed trade with China in a “fireside chat” with Ambassador Katherine Tai, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). Sumner expressed the concern of the chicken industry that a serious rift in relation between the U.S. and China could affect exports with deleterious effect on the U.S. chicken industry.
Ambassador Tai concurred, noting “How do we take down the temperature in this trade relationship? The temperature has reached the point where I consider the entire relationship feels like a pile of dry tinder and a strained remark or misunderstanding is likely to spark a giant fire with really drastic implications for all of us.”
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