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Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue: "Donald Trump Will Protect American Farmers from China's Trade Retaliation"

25 Jun 2018

Donald Trump will Protect American Farmers from China’s Trade Retaliation
By Secretary Sonny Perdue
USA Today
June 25, 2018

In 2011, a group of Chinese nationals dug up genetically engineered seeds from an Iowa corn field and planned to steal and send them back to China, so they could be reverse engineered. Those seeds, the result of years of research and millions of dollars of American investment, now stand as one of countless pieces of evidence in the case against China for intellectual property theft and unfair trade practices.



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