Source: Robert Arnason, Producer.com, March 2, 2018
Farmers for Free Trade have slammed Trump’s decision. Executive director Brian Kuehl said it could hurt American producers.
Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative, has said that trade between Canada and the U.S. should be balanced, which means the amount of goods flowing south into America should equal the amount of goods moving north into Canada.
Put another way, the country that exports more product is the winner and the country that imports more goods is the loser.