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Fruit and vegetable trade, dairy issues complicate NAFTA talks

WASHINGTON, July 26, 2017 - U.S. growers of corn, soybean, wheat and other crops want to keep their ability to export freely to Mexico and Canada under the North American Free Trade Agreement as the pact is renegotiated, but so do Mexican fruit and vegetable farmers – and that could complicate things.
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USDA opens market to allow in more foreign sugar

WASHINGTON, July 24, 2017 – USDA announced today that it is opening up the U.S. market to an additional 414,000 tons of foreign sugar. The move was greeted warmly by U.S. food and candy makers, who have been clamoring for months for the USDA to allow in more sugar.
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