{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-questions-trade-representative-nominees-on-need-to-end-the-biden-phosphate-duties-push-china-to-drop-non-tariff-barriers", "Grassley Questions Trade Representative Nominees on Need to End the Biden Phosphate Duties, Push China to Drop Non-Tariff Barriers", "2025-10-29", "2025", "2025-10", "Republican", "Senate", "IA", "Chuck Grassley", "G000386", "www.grassley.senate.gov", "grassley", "https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior member and former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee as well as a lifelong family farmer, questioned two nominees for the U.S. Trade Representative\u2019s office about the need to support Iowa farmers, including by restoring rules-based trade with China and ending the Biden Phosphate Duties that removed Moroccan phosphate as an option for farmers.\n\nIn his questions to Chief Agricultural Negotiator nominee Julie Callahan and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative nominee Jeffrey Goettman, Grassley shared that Iowans have expressed concern about finding more ways to get American dairy into Canada and asked what can be done to address the issue.\n\nVIDEO\n\nOn the need to end the Biden Phosphate Duties:\n\nI\u2019ve been speaking a lot recently about the income crisis in farming, particularly in crops.\n\nFarmers are facing low commodity prices and high input costs. The second highest input cost for farmers is fertilizer. So, directing this not in the form of question but a statement to Dr. Callahan and Mr. Goettman, I know that the responsibility for this rests with the Commerce Department, not at the Trade Representative\u2019s Office.\n\nHowever, I would hope that you take back to your team the message to get rid of the Biden Phosphate Duties that removed Moroccan phosphate as an option for American farmers.\n\nThat represents roughly 70 percent of the global reserves of phosphate, almost making it non-accessible to American farmers.\n\nOn pushing China to comply with rules-based trade, lower non-tariff barriers\n\nSo, to you, Dr. Callahan, this question based on the fact that President Trump is meeting with President Xi [of] China: \u2026 we\u2019re all hoping for good news from their meeting, especially on soybean exports, and I guess there\u2019s some news on that today.\n\nThere are many non-tariff barriers for U.S. farmers hoping to get their products sold to China, including beef producers.\n\nSo, what are some of these non-tariff barriers? And how will you continue to push China to comply with rules-based trade, and even their own regulations, to allow more [American] products into China?\n\nOn getting more U.S. dairy into Canada\n\nAnd for you and Mr. Goettman: as we look to reviewing the USMCA now that Mexico\u2019s GMO corn issue is resolved, the number one issue that I hear from Iowa farmers on USMCA is getting U.S. dairy into Canada.\n\nSo, for you two, is the USMCA dairy issue an enforcement issue, or are there some changes that we should push for in the review to get more dairy into Canada?", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-questions-trade-representative-nominees-on-need-to-end-the-biden-phosphate-duties-push-china-to-drop-non-tariff-barriers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.3809180818498135, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}