Agriculture complicates Trump’s trade bluster

China, Canada, and Mexico are the U.S.’s top agricultural export markets. Trade skirmishes with them could spell disaster for many U.S. farmers.

Canada was the top destination for U.S. agricultural exports in 2015. The chart shows the exports in U.S. dollars.Chart courtesy of the USDA

Opinion

BY JENNIFER CLAPP

March 29, 2017

Questions are swirling around the direction of United States trade policy now that Donald Trump is in the White House. He came out swinging against Mexico and China for what he perceives to be the theft of American manufacturing jobs. He is considering a 20 per cent border tax on imports from Mexic...

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