US President Donald Trump has said India should not be \u201cdumping\u201d rice into the United States market and he will \u201ctake care\u201d of it, while stressing that tariffs will solve the \u201cproblem\u201d easily.<\/p>\n
Trump held a roundtable in the White House on Monday with representatives of the farming and agriculture sector as well as key members of his cabinet, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. He announced $12 billion in federal aid for farmers.<\/p>\n
Meryl Kennedy, who runs her family\u2019s agribusiness Kennedy Rice Mill in Louisiana, told Trump that rice producers in the southern part of the country are \u201creally struggling\u201d and that other nations are \u201cdumping\u201d rice into the US.<\/p>\n
When asked by Trump which countries are dumping rice into America, Kennedy, sitting next to the President, replied, \u201cIndia and Thailand; even China into Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico used to be one of the largest markets for US rice. We haven\u2019t shipped rice into Puerto Rico in years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kennedy said this has been happening for years and did not start during the Trump administration. \u201cBut unfortunately, we\u2019re seeing it in a much bigger way now,\u201d she said. She said tariffs imposed by the Trump administration were working, \u201cbut we need to double down\u201d, to which Trump said, \u201cYou want more, I understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump then turned to Bessent and said, \u201cIndia, tell me about India. Why is India allowed to do that? They have to pay tariffs. Do they have an exemption on rice? No sir, we\u2019re still working on their trade deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has said India should not be \u201cdumping\u201d rice into the United States market and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":{"0":"post-340332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}