The Trump administration’s new trade agreement with Mexico and Canada could mean major losses for Georgia’s produce industry, according to a new study from the University of Georgia.
The new trade agreement reached last fall with Mexico and Canada, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA, was an effort to improve on NAFTA, but per the study, it could be just as bad as NAFTA for Georgia’s produce industry. In fact, the study predicts, it could cost the state 8,000 jobs and $1 billion in economic output.
The results confirm what Charles Hall, executive director of the Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association, has been saying: “It will be the devastation of the produce industry in the Southeast.”
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