Exports add significantly to the bottom line of each U.S. pork producer. U.S. exports of pork and pork products totaled 2.26 million metric tons in 2011, representing about 27 percent of production and adding almost $56 to the value for each hog marketed. In 2012, U.S. pork exports were valued at a record-breaking $6.3 billion, up from $394 million in 1989 when the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement was implemented. Gaining and expanding access to markets through free trade agreements and is paramount to the continued success of the U.S. pork industry.

Issues

• Benefits of Expanding U.S. Pork Exports

• Regional Trade Negotiations

• Trans-Pacific Partnership
• TPP Letters to Ambassador Ron Kirk and Secretary Vilsack (PDF)
• NPPC Federal Register Comments Canada TPP (PDF)
• NPPC Letter on Canadian Subsidies and TPP (PDF)
• TPP Letter to President Obama (PDF)

• Pending Negotiations

• NPPC Comments on Possible FTA with the EU (PDF)
• Agriculture Coalition Letter on Possible EU-U.S. FTA (PDF)

• Recently Implemented Free Trade Agreements

• Colombia, Panama and South Korea FTAs (PDF)

• China

• A Solution to China’s Food Price Inflation Problem (PDF)

• Bilateral Pork Trade Issues

• NPPC Comments to USTR on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Trade Barriers (PDF)
• NPPC Comments to USTR on Non-Tariff Trade Barriers (PDF)

• Trade Promotion Authority

• NPPC Letter in Support of TPA (PDF)