GOP tax chair: Argentine beef imports would be ‘devastating’ to US cattle producers

GOP tax chair: Argentine beef imports would be 'devastating' to US cattle producers

Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.), the chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, this week expressed opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to boost Argentine beef imports. Smith, in a Southeast Missourian op-ed published Monday, said he told President Trump in a recent conversation that “purchasing beef tariff-free from Argentina would be devastating to America’s cattle producers, who are struggling just to get by.”  Last week, the White H…