John Cornyn: “Australia basically denies access to its huge market [for…”

“Lynn, just one example that seems to me to make the point is that our friends in basically have put up barriers to the export of beef from the United States. My state, Texas happens to produce a lot of beef cattle and Australia basically denies access to its huge market [for U.S. beef] but not as a result of tariffs so much as non tariff barriers to trade. Could you speak to that? Yes, Senator. And it's always surprising because we have a free trade agreement with Australia and we would expect that we would have fair and reciprocal trade.” (01:31)

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