Republicans want the Trump administration to pump the brakes on a European Union trade deal until the EU revamps an environmental regulation they say hurts the US timber industry.
An EU deforestation-free supply chains rule threatens $3.5 billion in US exports and 900,000 American forest products workers, the Arkansas congressional delegation wrote in a Nov. 6 letter to US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. Arkansas’ economy relies heavily on the forest industry.
“We cannot accept arbitrary burdens on America’s most sustainable industries,” the delegation, including Sens.