U.S. President Donald Trump's policy of spurning international free trade frameworks in order to seek concessions in bilateral negotiations has punished American farmers in the short-term, leaving them at a disadvantage in export markets and eager for trade deals that could restore their competitiveness.Tim Burrack, a farmer and pork producer in eastern Iowa, told Kyodo News his operations have suffered as a result of exclusion from the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11-nation free trade pact that took effect in December after the original plans fo…READ FULL ARTICLE
