4 ISSUE #2 [ www.spudman.com Thursday, January 10, 2019 FLY-IN continued from page 3 our timeliness to market for agriculture products. 3. Trade. We're kind of at Growers from Colorado met with their members of Congress to discuss key potato industry issues including funding for vital research and hours of service regulations. a pretty significant crossroads on where we go with trade, whether we're able to complete some of these bilateral agreements and re-establish zero tariffs into some of our key markets. Right now what's happening is that we've either pulled back from some trade agreements, like TPP, or we've said we want to negotiate bilaterally like with Japan. And what's happening during that time period is while we're doing that, it creates a void essentially in those countries and that void is being filled by countries 19-01 Spudman Potato Expo Half Page AD.v2.outlines.pdf 1 2018-11-30 11:54 AM negotiating trade deals with our partners. With the midterm elections now over, what are NPC's goals in working with a new Congress? We try to make friends with whoever the new group is. Some doors open, some doors close and we try to figure out what those are and then use those to our best advantage to move whatever issue we want to move forward. Even though you have a divided government now, you also have a government where no one party has the numbers to insist upon their own way on any given issue - which creates both the chance for more gridlock or it creates the Booth #212 [http://www.spudman.com