Washington, DC — This past week, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley warned the “United States Mexico Canada Agreement” won’t get ratified in Congress if President Trump doesn’t lift the tariffs on steel and aluminum. Joni Ernst, the other Republican representing Iowa in the U.S. Senate, says those tariffs “need to go away.”
Ernst met the previous week with about 120 people at Kinze Manufacturing in Williamsburg to discuss the impact the tariffs are having in Iowa. The tariffs on steel and aluminum imports also prompted Mexico to impose tariffs on U.S. pork imports.
U.S. farm income fell nearly 12 billion dollars in the first three months of the year.
Ernst says she also met this past week with Iowa businesses that distribute canned beverages and heard their concerns about rising aluminum prices.
