BLUE DIAMOND GROWERS

Taxation/Internal Revenue Code

Support tax reform and simplification of the tax code

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Vice President of the U.S. · Executive Office of the President (EOP) · White House Office · U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) · Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Trade (domestic/foreign)

Support of Free Trade Agreements and export promotion programs; Obtaining a duty reduction for shelled and in-shell almonds to China and India; Inquiries regarding the importation of almond base to Korea; Almond labeling and smuggling issues in India; Addressing retaliatory tariffs in China and Turkey resulting from Sec. 232 steel and aluminum actions; Continued efforts to reduce duties in Israel; Monitoring USMCA developments; Monitoring trade issues regarding disparaging advertisements against almond milk; Addressing emerging trade barriers in China; Monitoring the KORUS renegotiation

TargetedSENATE · HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES · Vice President of the U.S. · Executive Office of the President (EOP) · White House Office · U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) · Agriculture, Dept of (USDA)

Agriculture

Support funding for the Market Access Program; Support measures regarding the health and welfare of honeybees and accompanying pollination issues for almonds; Support measures to address CA water; Monitor FSMA; Support immigration reform (s. 175) (h.r. 641); Support checkoff transparency and not allowing checkoff funds to be used for disparaging advertisements against another commodity; Support tax reform; Opposing the DAIRY PRIDE ACT (s. 792) (h.r. 1769); Monitor international trade issues pertaining to agriculture