Today U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins started a three-day visit in the U.K., as the first of her “six nations in six months” commitment to “expand market access” for U.S. farm goods exports.
Rollins will go to India, Japan, Vietnam, Peru and Brazil; plus, the USDA has trade promotion missions to more nations. She spoke on Sunday TV May 4, about how great it will be for U.S. farmers to break open the India market. She gushed that Vice President J.D. Vance has already been in India, pressuring them to import more U.S. farm goods. She did not report that Indian farmers took to the streets against Vance, even burning him in effigy.
On May 8, new U.K.-U.S. trade terms were announced, for U.S. beef to sell in the U.K. at lower tariffs and bigger volumes, as well as zero-tariff U.S. ethanol. There is no “need” for U.S. beef in the U.K., if British farmers are supported to supply national needs. Moreover, U.S. cattlemen need for an end to beef imports into the U.S., which the meat cartels conduct, in league with food retailers. The big name cartel firms include JBS (headquartered in London and Brazil), Tysons, Cargill, National Beef (Marfrig, Brazil), Smithfield/WH Group (Hong Kong), and a few others. The cartel makes money off trade, coming-and-going.
