PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 1, 2020
CONTACT: Justin Davis ([email protected])

MAINE GOP STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT TRUMP'S HISTORIC USMCA TRADE DEAL

 

 

AUGUSTA, ME-- Maine GOP Chair Demi Kouzounas issued the following
statement today on the United States Mexico Canada Agreement going into
effect,

"Today, the United States Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA), President
Trump's signature renegotiation of the failed NAFTA agreement, will go
into effect. This is a critical program for our country with the
potential to raise our GDP by $235 billion
,
and add close to 600,000

jobs across the nation.

"Despite Jared Golden, Nancy Pelosi, and Congressional Democrats' best
attempts to delay this crucial program for more than a year, President
Trump got the deal done.

"Here in Maine, our agricultural industry has always been important, and
under the USMCA we can expect a $2.2 billion

increase in food exports. Maine's potato and blueberry industries have
always been an important part of our history, in 2018 Maine exported
$247 million

in agricultural products, and with the USMCA we can expect these crops
and sales to grow even more."

Chair Kouzounas concluded, "Because of President Trump, Maine businesses
finally have fair trade again. We simply cannot afford to let Joe Biden
back in D.C. where he could continue to craft policies that would harm
our state and nation for another fifty years."
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