Understanding the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Market Facilitation Program in American Agriculture

Nick Blumenthal was an intern in the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic during the summer of 2024. In 2018, American agriculture found itself at the epicenter of a geopolitical storm. An escalating trade war between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, led to a barrage of tariffs that hit farmers particularly hard. From…

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