this is an important day to american agriculture, canadian agriculture and mexican every culture and we show our unity together and i want to thank mister bonnett for being with us today and joining us in talking about modernization of nafta trade treaty. everyone in the room know that american farmers and ranchers value trade relationships with the closest neighbors, canada and mexico, they are number one and number 3 customers in the united states, exports, and they are the top two suppliers of agricultural imports, our trade relations are important on the stage here. we have a vital interest in helping neighbors make improvements, to do no harm to the games we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and expanding upon the gains agriculture has achieved and ensure a modernized nafta continues to be a success story, north america farmers and ranchers was we want timely enforcement of trade agreements and prompt resolutions to disputes that might arise in the new modernization treaty. and $137 billion this year, forecast of agriculture imports of $104.5 billion, giving u

floor is yours. >> thank you for attending, this is an important day to american agriculture, canadian agriculture and mexican agriculture. we come today to show our unity and i want to thank mister bonnett and mister vega for being with us today and helping joining us in talking about modernization of nafta trade treaty. i want you gentlemen and everyone in the room today to know that american farmers and ranchers value our trade relationships with our two closest neighbors, canada and mexico are more than close. they are number one and number 3 customers of the united states, agricultural products, exports and the top two suppliers of us agricultural imports. clearly our trade relations are important to all of us on stage here. we have a vital interest in helping our neighbors make improvements, negotiators make improvements but also do no harm to the gains we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and expanding on gains, agriculture has achieved and ensure a modernized, nafta continues to be a success story for north america farmers and ranchers. we all want timely enforcement of

this is a very important day for american agriculture, canadian agriculture, and mexican agriculture, and we come today to show our unity together. i want to thank these two for being with us today and joining us in talking about modernization of nafta trade treaty. i want you gentlemen and everyone in the room to know that american former senators value our trade relationships with our two closest neighbors. canada and mexico are more than just close. they are our number one and number three customers of the united states, agricultural products, exports. and they are the top two supplies of u.s. agricultural imports. relations arerade important to all of us on the stage here. we have a vital interest in helping our neighbors make improvements, our negotiators make improvements, but also to do no harm to the gains that we have gained in nafta. we are committed to preserving and extending upon the gains agriculture has achieved, and ensure a modernized nafta continues to be a success story for north america farmers and ranchers. enforcementtimely of trade agreements and prompt resoluti

will: next, we have ron bonnet resident of the canadian agriculture department. ron: thank you, will. and thank you to the american farm bureau for the hospitality. we had the opportunity to have lunch before this press conference and i think it gave us an opportunity to exchange views on where things are going and i think between mr. duvall think we la vega, i realized that there was a lot of common ground that we can build on. we heard the opening remarks on the renegotiation of nafta. and i i think it's interesting in the opening comments we heard the world agriculture a number of times. with our leadership in all three countries recognizing that agriculture is important, we the farm leaders of all three countries must insist that the voices of farmers must be heard. i thank the press for coming out. i think it is an issue of great importance to the economies of all three countries. c.f.a., american farm bureau and c.n.a. in mexico decided several weeks ago that it would be appropriate for us to try and find that common ground that we had when we moved forward

canadian and mexico. here c-span, let me show you what these agricultural representatives had to say about nafta. >> we do no harm. this has been a good trade treaty for north american mexico toe from canada. we want to have our voice loud clear. we don't want to harm the gains. the president of the united too, he'smy president president of all the farmers and ranchers across this country. who played a major role in elected.im he promised not only to make treaty more fair for americanpeople but all people. i don't see him doing harm for this treaty. >> just on that statement too, i would say, there maybe some of the, there was part news for agriculture in the fact that it was very much singled out. agriculture was a shining example of how the success could work. think back to mr. devalue's -- about do noement harm. messageto ensure that is heard loud and clear. , very quickly, we needed to make a statement to the negotiators. we got something that's working. don't do something in the that's going to undermine that. that's going to undermine not farmers and ranchers but also all of the jobs that are relate

the agriculture got together in washington for a big press conference. the mexicans come the canadianse u.s. ag industry and the american farm bureau, farm bureau federation said listen mr. president whatever you do don't screw it up, do no harm. >> this has been a good trade north american agriculture from mexico and canada and we will make sure we have that voice heard loud and clear that we don't want to harm the game that we have had any. i don't see them doing harm to this treaty that has been good for agriculture. >> and i would point out to you liz many people don't know this but the nafta agreement must be ratified by congress so whatever they negotiate congress has to get behind it. there are a lot of farms out there and if they mess with them i don't think it gets approved. liz: you look like a norman rockwell painting out there, your green shirt with the grass in the corn. >> i am as old as norman rockwell but thank you. liz: thank you very much. i'm sure these negotiations will be going on for a long time. the closing bell, eight minutes away from hearing it with the dow up

canadian and mexican officials in the farm industry say, please, mr. president, don't screw this up. >> our stand is that we do no harm. this has been a good trade treaty for north american agriculturem north america to mexico, to canada. we want to make sure we have our voice heard loud and clear and we have no harms in the gains in it. >> do no harm. we have to insure that message is there loud and clear. i think in part why the three of us decided very quickly that we needed to make a statement to the negotiators that we've got something that is working. reporter: trish, i leave you with this. that is, if you want to mess with the deficit, and there is a big trade deficit between the u.s. and mexico, it is almost all to do with autos. if it wasn't for autos we would have -- trish: i have a hard break. see you back here in two. don't let dust and allergens get between you and life's beautiful moments. switch to flonase allergy relief. flonase outperforms the #1 non-drowsy allergy pill. when we breathe in allergens, our bodies react by overproducing 6 key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. flonase helps block 6. most allergy pills only block one and 6 is greater than