MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Many Tennessee farmers are reaching out to lawmakers, seeking help as they try to deal with the impact of tariffs and fearing they may go under if something doesn’t change.
The impact of tariffs is hitting home on the farm land, with farmers saying they are feeling the pain of the trade war.“There’s less customers available to the farmer because of the Trump tariff tax,” Tennessee State Representative G.A. Hardaway told WREG’s April Thompson.
Hardaway says state lawmakers have been getting an earful from local farmers.“They’re saying that the markets are drying up and their costs are going up. Those countries which were buying from Tennessee, they’ve gone somewhere else because the one thing you’ve got to have when you do business is reliability,” explained Hardaway. “And we’re not reliable trading partners anymore, because of this haphazard way that the Trump tariff tax has been executed.”…