U.S. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue tells Brownfield the U.S. does not support protectionist policies and specialty crop growers need to find alternative solutions to secure domestic market access.
“We’ve got to figure out if these other countries are subsiding things we can legitimately take to a countervailing duty and dumping court and prove our case, and we’re willing to that.”
Many specialty crop groups claim Mexico, Peru and other countries are flooding the U.S.