Navigating Trade Negotiations Under The Trump Administration

By Megan Grebner

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The Secretary of Agriculture says it’s a new day for trade negotiations in America.

USDA’s Brooke Rollins says members of the Trump administration have been working around the clock to finalize new trade deals. “What normally would take 2 years to reach a trade agreement, we’re doing in the course of 30, 60, and 90 days,” she says.

She says President Trump is fully vested in negotiating agreements that benefit America’s farmers and ranchers. “We’re coming to the end of this first round of negotiations,” she says.  “Just yesterday I was at the White House, I was there for different reasons, but there were three different countries, I think in the White House currently in negotiations with not just Secretary Lutnick or Secretary Bessent or Jamieson Greer, but with the President himself.”

Rollins says leveling the playing field when it comes to global trade is important, but so is developing domestic markets. “It isn’t just about making sure that we have a strong ag community,” she says.  “It’s also national security. If we lose the ability to feed ourselves, then we lose the ability to be, and remain the world’s superpower, which is what we have been now for a really long time.”