Sonny Perdue, the US Secretary of Agriculture, said in a telephone interview with some European journalists, on Wednesday 7 October, that the effects of the EU’s ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy on transatlantic trade will be “extremely problematic”.
“Every sovereign nation has the right to determine their rules and regulations regarding their food and agricultural production. We do, Europe does. But when you try to impose standards on international trade, based on subjective matters...