Threat of Worsening China Trade War Looms Large for Louisiana, Especially Farmers
By Anthony McAuley, The Advocate, Baton Rouge
The threat of a worsening trade war with China is looming large for Louisiana, especially for farmers who are also facing another wet planting season and high Mississippi River water levels, the same set of conditions that hit the soybean crop in the southern part of the state last year. In the latest move in the U.S.-China trade face-off, President Donald Trump on Friday raised tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods, and the Chinese government threatened to retaliate.