{"id":27969,"date":"2025-06-10T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?p=27969"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:09:26","slug":"sen-ossoff-georgias-congressional-delegation-urging-trump-administration-to-help-georgia-growers-export-more-pecans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/sen-ossoff-georgias-congressional-delegation-urging-trump-administration-to-help-georgia-growers-export-more-pecans\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff, Georgia\u2019s Congressional Delegation Urging Trump Administration to Help Georgia Growers Export More Pecans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>In 2023,&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/breaking-following-sen-ossoffs-months-long-push-india-cuts-tariffs-on-u-s-pecan-exports-by-70-in-major-win-for-georgia-farmers\/\"><em>following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s push<\/em><\/a><em>, the Republic of India announced a major 70% cut to tariffs on U.S. pecan exports \u2014 helping growers sell more products<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Atlanta, Ga. \u2014<\/strong>&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is continuing his work to help Georgia pecan growers sell more pecans abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff recently joined Congressman Rick Allen (GA-12) and Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock and Reps. Earl L. \u201cBuddy\u201d Carter (GA-01), Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Lucy McBath (GA-06), Rich McCormick (GA-07), Austin Scott (GA-08), and David Scott (GA-13) in urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to expedite the process of obtaining market access for more Georgia pecans to be sold to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile U.S. pecan exporters are now successfully exporting shelled pecans to India, the product purchasers in India have requested the U.S. to export in-shell pecans, which enables the pecans to travel in a more shelf-stable state and allows buyers to finish processing upon arrival in India,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff, Rep. Allen, and the group wrote to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cOnce the U.S. has submitted the required documents to India, India\u2019s Dried Fruit and Nut Council has elected to advocate to the Indian government for a swift solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fas.usda.gov\/data\/india-success-story-its-been-tough-nut-crack-india-all-pecans-tariff-reduction\">report<\/a>&nbsp;by the USDA, in 2022, the United States exported more than $1.3 million of pecans to India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, USDA\u2019s Foreign Agricultural Service projects that pecan exports to India could reach up to $5 million annually \u2014 coming after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/breaking-following-sen-ossoffs-months-long-push-india-cuts-tariffs-on-u-s-pecan-exports-by-70-in-major-win-for-georgia-farmers\/\">Sen. Ossoff successfully worked<\/a>&nbsp;with the Republic of India\u2019s government to reduce India\u2019s tariffs on U.S. pecan imports by 70% \u2014 a major win for pecan growers in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues working to support Georgia\u2019s pecan growers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last July, Sens. Ossoff and Reverend Raphael Warnock&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sens-ossoff-rev-warnock-pressing-usda-to-promote-georgia-pecans\/\">pressed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)<\/a>&nbsp;to provide adequate promotional resources for marketing Georgia pecans to the global market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/pecan_in-shell_letter_to_usda.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the group\u2019s inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023,&nbsp;following Sen. Ossoff\u2019s push, the Republic of India announced a major 70% cut to tariffs on U.S. pecan exports \u2014 helping growers sell more products Atlanta, Ga. \u2014&nbsp;U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is continuing his work to help Georgia pecan growers sell more pecans abroad. Sen. Ossoff recently joined Congressman Rick Allen (GA-12) and Senator [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27970,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27969\/revisions\/27970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}