New North American trade agreement is ‘leveling the playing field,’ Sen. Joni Ernst says

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said Tuesday there’s excitement back home about the new North American trade agreement President Donald Trump announced this week.

“This is a good deal for farmers and ranchers,” Ernst told The World-Herald. “It’s leveling the playing field for our wheat farmers, for gaining access for dairy, poultry, eggs.”

Ernst was in the Rose Garden on Monday for the president’s announcement of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA, that would take the place of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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Gaining greater access to Canada’s market for U.S. dairy products is a particularly big deal, Ernst said, but it also carries a lot of benefits for U.S. autoworkers, as their Mexican counterparts will have to be paid more under the agreement.

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Ernst said she expects Congress to approve the new trade agreement.

“We have a lot of benefit to American workers, to farmers, to ranchers. I think it’s a really good deal,” Ernst said.

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