Iowa’s Third Congressional District Representative stands by the Trump Administration’s tariff decisions.

Congressman Zach Nunn says Iowa farmers know all too well the feeling of these tariff wars and hitting the bottom dollar pinch, while also having to pay skyrocketing input costs to continue to be the global leader in several agricultural markets. He shares what he has been hearing from farmers in the state’s Third Congressional District.

“The result here is that farmers stand with Trump from every farm-listening session I’ve gone to. They recognize the United States has a $ 1 trillion trade deficit and that’s not fair. We’ve got to make sure that other countries’ tariffs come down to zero.”  

Nunn reassures farmers that President Donald Trump’s “Art of the Deal” is working with lots of the countries that the US trades with. He explains one example of this is when there was a 90 percent tariff that the US had with Vietnam went down to zero percent in 24 hours after the President announced the long list of retaliatory tariffs to other countries. 

Nunn points out that farmers do not want a handout from the taxpayers and even during the first Trump Administration, farmers held even financially from the tariffs that were put in place on agricultural products. However, he notes that back then, it allowed countries like Brazil to gain more of the market share, because of cheap cash that came out of China. Nunn shares what he is telling the Trump Administration this time around with tariffs with farmers.

“I don’t want any farmer to emerge from a tariff war and find that all of their markets are gone. And so, this is where I put a lot of pressure on the USDA (US Department of Agriculture) and including  the (Trump) Administration to get out and open up new trade opportunities particularly for our farmers.” 

Nunn adds that one way this is happening is with Vice President JD Vance’s visit to India as a possible new market, due to the lowering of their own tariffs, that would unlock several opportunities for US goods in one of the world’s largest populated countries.