US Will Protect Its Farmers Amid Trade Tensions: USDA’s Perdue

US Will Protect Its Farmers Amid Trade Tensions: USDA’s Perdue
Sonny Perdue US Secretary of Agriculture, speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federations 99th Annual Convention at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, on Jan. 8, 2018. Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images
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WASHINGTON—U.S. farmers will be protected by the Trump administration during rising trade tensions between the United States and China, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on April 9.

“We’re not going to allow agricultural producers to bear the brunt of Chinese retaliation as we defend our own interests,” Perdue said during a speech to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Washington.