{"id":14222,"date":"2022-06-23T09:20:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=14222"},"modified":"2022-06-23T09:20:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T13:20:36","slug":"readout-sen-ossoff-ambassador-bianchi-agree-to-put-pecan-tariffs-at-top-of-u-s-india-trade-agenda-2","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/readout-sen-ossoff-ambassador-bianchi-agree-to-put-pecan-tariffs-at-top-of-u-s-india-trade-agenda-2\/","title":{"rendered":"READOUT: Sen. Ossoff, Ambassador Bianchi Agree to Put Pecan Tariffs at Top of U.S.-India Trade Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Last month, Georgia pecan farmers expressed to Sen. Ossoff their concerns about India\u2019s tariffs; Sen. Ossoff has taken swift action<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Sen. Ossoff has met twice in last two weeks with India\u2019s Ambassador to the United States<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Georgia produces about one-third of all American pecans<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Sarah Bianchi met and agreed to put reducing India\u2019s high pecan tariffs at the top of the U.S.-India trade agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting by videoconference, Sen. Ossoff and Ambassador Bianchi agreed on the importance of lowering India\u2019s pecan tariffs to help U.S. pecan growers fairly access the Indian market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.valdostadailytimes.com\/news\/ossoff-reviews-farm-bill-meets-s-ga-leaders\/article_1ba8595e-e650-11ec-8008-03451d4d36ca.html\">listened to Georgia pecan farmers<\/a>&nbsp;in Tift and Turner counties who expressed concern about India\u2019s high pecan&nbsp;tariffs. Georgia produces about one-third of all American pecans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to the needs of Georgia farmers, Sen. Ossoff raised objections to India\u2019s high&nbsp;tariffs on pecans with India\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S Taranjit Singh Sandhu in two separate engagements. Sen. Ossoff and Amb. Sandhu agreed to work together to make improvements to the U.S.-India trade relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff continues his work to support Georgia farmers and growers. Last year, Sen. Ossoff&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-to-help-georgia-farmers-sell-more-pecans\/\">secured a commitment<\/a>&nbsp;from the President and Chair of the U.S. Export-Import Bank to help more Georgia pecan farmers sell their products around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Georgia pecan farmers expressed to Sen. Ossoff their concerns about India\u2019s tariffs; Sen. Ossoff has taken swift action Sen. Ossoff has met twice in last two weeks with India\u2019s Ambassador to the United States Georgia produces about one-third of all American pecans Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff and Deputy U.S. Trade [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14222","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14228,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/14222\/revisions\/14228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}