Trump Touts New Farm Trade Pact In Deal With Mexico That Doesn't Appear To Exist

[DonViejo]

06/09/2019 01:37 am ET

There’s no mention of it in State Department declaration, and Mexican officials tell Bloomberg they’re not aware of it.

By Mary Papenfuss

Donald Trump crowed on Twitter Saturday that the new deal with Mexico involves an agreement to “immediately” begin buying “large quantities” of U.S. farm products. But there’s not a word about that in the “joint declaration” on the agreement issued by the State Department and Mexico. Three Mexican officials with knowledge of the deliberations also told Bloomberg that they’re unaware of any such agreement.

The issue was not raised during negotiatons, the officials told Bloomberg.

Link to tweet

The New York Times reported Saturday that much of what was outlined in the joint declaration concerning Mexico’s efforts to stem the number of immigrants heading to the U.S. border was already promised by Mexico over the past several months. It was not in response to Trump’s threat to impost tariffs on Mexican products, according to the Times.

As for purchasing farm produce, Mexico has always been a major buyer of U.S. agricultural products. U.S. exports of agricultural products to Mexico last year totaled $20 billion in 2018, making it America’s second-largest largest agricultural export market, according to U.S. statistics. It buys large amounts of American corn, dairy, soybeans and pork and pork products.

The fear was that Trump’s threatened tariffs on Mexican products would trigger retaliatory tariffs that would likely hurt U.S. farmers.

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1. He lies when silence or truth would serve him better