UNITED STATES
Senators warn on tobacco exclusion from TPP

More than 50 U.S. senators and representatives from leading tobacco-growing states warned U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk of the dangerous consequences for local growers if tobacco was excluded from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, reports the Charlotte Observer.

"Tobacco has not been excluded from any recent free-trade agreements, and we shouldn't start to exclude this crop now when the livelihoods of so many North Carolina growers are on the line," said U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, who has helped lead the effort against excluding tobacco.
U.S. tobacco farmers fear they could lose a significant portion of their export business if health advocates win a battle to carve tobacco out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement, a major trade agreement that is currently being negotiated between the U.S. and eight countries on the Pacific Rim – Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. It is aimed at boosting trade by eliminating taxes and tariffs on exports and imports between the countries.
Erica Peterson, executive vice president of the N.C. Agribusiness Council, said tobacco farmers are a major economic engine in North Carolina's USD 70 billion (EUR 52 billion) agribusiness industry. "There is the fertilizer, the pesticide," she said. "There is the dealership that sells the truck to the farmer. … Any of the employees they hire on the farm. … All these folks are going to be impacted."
North Carolina is the leading exporter of tobacco, selling more than USD 600 million worth of unmanufactured tobacco in 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The next round of negotiations is set for Thursday in Australia. (pi)

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