U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, along with fellow members of the Senate Finance Committee, met this week with President Trump’s trade chief to discuss the importance of protecting Missouri’s agriculture economy in the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). McCaskill, recently joined her Republican colleagues in seeking protections for Missouri agriculture producers in NAFTA renegotiations, in a letter to Mr. Lighthizer. Last month she joined a bipartisan call along with fellow Missouri Senator Roy Blunt and led by Republican Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, urging the Trump Administration to conduct a robust economic analysis to evaluate how any changes to NAFTA would affect Missouri’s crop and livestock sectors. The Senators’ wrote in their letter to the Administration that, “U.S. is the world’s top exporter of food and agricultural products and is an important economic driver that stimulates prosperity and jobs throughout rural America. According to USDA, every $1 in agricultural exports generates an additional $1.27 in economic activity, and every $1 billion in farm exports supports 8,000 jobs.” Since NAFTA was enacted in 1993, Canada and Mexico have been Missouri’s top export destinations and two of the top five importers of American agricultural products, including 28 percent of total American agricultural exports last year.