{"id":17296,"date":"2023-02-08T15:43:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&p=17296"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:59:12","slug":"georgia-pecan-growers-associations-marianne-brown-joins-sen-ossoff-for-state-of-the-union-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/georgia-pecan-growers-associations-marianne-brown-joins-sen-ossoff-for-state-of-the-union-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Hosts Georgia Pecan Grower Marianne Brown for State of the Union in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sen. Ossoff worked closely with Georgia Pecan Growers Association to push reduction of India\u2019s 100% tariff on U.S. pecan exports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, India announced a 70% reduction of tariffs on U.S. pecan exports<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington, D.C.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff hosted Georgia pecan grower Marianne Brown as his honored guest for the State of the Union Address. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brown serves as an Executive Board Member of the National Pecan Federation and Treasurer of the Georgia Pecan Growers Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff has been a strong advocate for Georgia farmers and Georgia\u2019s pecan growers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the request of Georgia farmers<\/a>, Sen. Ossoff worked behind the scenes for months with U.S. trade negotiators, Indian government officials, and the Georgia Pecan Growers Association to help open the Indian market for Georgia pecan growers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senators and members of Congress are allowed to bring one guest of honor to accompany them to the State of the Union Address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was my honor to join Sen. Ossoff as his guest for the State of the Union,\u201d Brown said.<\/strong> \u201cIndia\u2019s 100% tariff on Georgia pecan exports shouldered a huge burden on Georgia pecan growers. I\u2019m grateful to Sen. Ossoff for his help in getting the tariffs reduced and for his continued support of Georgia growers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In August 2022, Sen. Ossoff personally led an economic delegation<\/a> to the Republic of India to meet with key business and government leaders and continue urging for a reduction in tariffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff met seven times with India\u2019s Ambassador to the U.S Taranjit Singh Sandhu over the last year, and the two agreed to work together<\/a> to make improvements to the U.S.-India trade relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Ossoff also met last year<\/a> with Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Sarah Bianchi, who agreed at his urging to put reducing India\u2019s high pecan tariffs at the top of the U.S.-India trade agenda.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Ossoff worked closely with Georgia Pecan Growers Association to push reduction of India\u2019s 100% tariff on U.S. pecan exports Last week, India announced a 70% reduction of tariffs on U.S. pecan exports Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2014 Yesterday, U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff hosted Georgia pecan grower Marianne Brown as his honored guest for the State of the […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17296","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17296","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":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17306,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/17296\/revisions\/17306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}