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ter for $199 each. High school
and college students can also
register for $199, each.
Those staying overnight in
Pendleton can take advantage
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Oxford Suites, which is within
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to revitalizing grasslands. For
more information and to reg-
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ience, or Doug Warnock at
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com or 509-629-1671.
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cars
imports threaten Ameri-
ca’s national security.
Whatever
Commerce
has concluded in this case,
Trump has made clear his
enthusiasm for tariffs in
general and for auto tariffs
in particular. Some ana-
lysts say they think Com-
merce has likely endorsed
the tariffs, not least be-
cause the president has
conveyed his preference
for them.
Among Commerce’s rec-
ommendations “will cer-
tainly be tariffs because,
hey, he’s a Tariff Man,”
said William Reinsch, a
former U.S. trade official
and now a senior adviser
at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies,
referring to a nickname
that Trump gave himself.
Industry officials took
part in a conference call
Tuesday to discuss the
possible steps Trump
could take. They include
tariffs of up to 25 percent
on imported parts only; on
assembled vehicles only;
or on both vehicles and
parts — including those
from Mexico and Canada.
The last option would
be an especially unusual
one given that the United
States, Mexico and Can-
ada reached a new North
American trade deal late
last year, and the legisla-
tures of all three nations
must still ratify it.
In public hearings last
year, the idea of impos-
ing import taxes on autos
drew almost no support.
Even U.S. automakers,
which ostensibly would
benefit from a tax on their
foreign competitors, op-
posed the potential tariffs.
Among other concerns,
the automakers worry
about retaliatory tariffs
that the affected nations
would impose on U.S.
vehicles. Many U.S. au-
tomakers also depend on
imported parts that would
be subject to Trump’s tar-
iffs and would become
more expensive.
A similar Commerce
investigation last year re-
sulted in the Trump ad-
ministration
imposing
taxes on imported steel
and aluminum in the
name of national security.
The administration has
adopted an extraordinari-
ly broad view of national
security to include just
about anything that might
affect the economy.
In addition to steel and
aluminum, Trump has
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Temple Grandin
A grazing animal behavior
specialist, Dr. Grandin is
a designer of livestock
handling facilities and
a Professor of Animal
Science at Colorado
State University. She
has designed facilities
in the United States,
Canada, Europe, Mexico,
Australia, New Zealand
and other countries. In
North America, almost
half of the cattle are
handled in a center
track restrainer system
that she designed for
processing meat plants.
Curved
chute
and
race systems she has
designed for cattle are
used worldwide, and her
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zone and other principles
of
grazing
animal
behavior have helped
many ranchers to reduce
stress on their animals
during handling.
Gabe Brown
A leader in soil health,
Gabe Brown practices
and promotes holistic
management at his
imposed tariffs on dish-
washers, solar panels
and hundreds of Chinese
products. Targeting autos
would further raise the
stakes. The United States
imported $340 billion in
cars, trucks and auto parts
in 2017.
If the administration
imposed 25 percent tar-
iffs on imported parts and
vehicles including those
from Canada and Mexico,
the price of imported ve-
hicles would jump more
than 17 percent, or an av-
erage of around $5,000
each, according to es-
timates by IHS Markit.
Even the prices of vehicles
made in the U.S. would
rise by about 5 percent,
or $1,800, because all of
them use some imported
parts.
Luxury brands would
absorb the sharpest in-
crease: $5,800 on aver-
age, IHS concluded. Mass-
market vehicle prices
would rise an average of
$3,300.
If the tariffs were fully
assessed, IHS predicts
that price increases would
cause U.S. auto sales to
fall by an average of 1.8
million vehicles a year
through 2026. Auto in-
dustry officials say that
if sales fall, there almost
certainly will be U.S. lay-
offs. Dealers who sell Ger-
man and some Japanese
brands would be hurt the
most by the tariffs.
“The economic fall-
out would be significant,
with auto tariffs hurt-
ing the global economy
by distorting prices and
creating
inefficiencies,
farm in North Dakota.
He strives to solve
problems in a natural
and sustainable way.
Improving soil health
is a priority and no-
till farming has been
practiced since 1993. A
diverse cropping strategy
that includes cover and
companion crops are
used. He has eliminated
the use of synthetic
fertilizers,
fungicides
and insecticides. He has
minimized the use of
herbicides and is striving
to eliminate their use
entirely, and he does not
use GMOs or glyphosate.
Brown’s ever-evolving
grazing strategy allows
most of his pastures a
recovery period of more
than 360 days. These
strategies have allowed
the health of the soil,
the mineral and water
cycles to greatly improve.
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us. He is moving toward
sustainability for not
only this generation but
future generations as
well.
Biennial Roots of Resilience Grazing Conference:
Resilience for Land & Livestock
March 27-28, 2019
Pendleton Convention Center
Schedule
Wednesday, March 27
8 a.m.
Registration
9 a.m
Opening remarks, Sandra Matheson and Doug Warnock, Roots of
Resilience
9:15 a.m.
Gabe Brown
10:30 a.m.
Break, Trade Show
11 a.m.
Gabe Brown
noon
Lunch
1 p.m.
Beth Robinette, Roots of Resilience — The Future of Agriculture
1:30 p.m.
Grazing Cover Crops Landowner/Researcher Panel and Q&A,
moderated by Chad Kruger, WSU
3:15 p.m.
Break, Trade Show
3:45 p.m.
Chad Kruger, WSU — Regenerative Agriculture
4:15 p.m.
Gabe Brown & Chad Kruger — Putting It All Together
5 p.m.
Closing remarks, Beth Robinette, Roots of Resilience
Thursday, March 28
8 a.m.
Registration
9 a.m.
Opening remarks, Sandra Matheson, Roots of Resilience
9:15 a.m.
Temple Grandin
10:30 a.m.
Break, Trade Show
11 a.m.
Temple Grandin
noon
Lunch, Trade Show
1:15 p.m.
Chris Schachtschneider, OSU Livestock and Range Extension,
Demonstration on Low-Stress Livestock Handling
2:45 p.m.
Break
3:15 p.m.
Temple Grandin
4:15 p.m.
Review and Closing Remarks, Sandra Matheson and Beth
Robinette, Roots of Resilience
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bill would give Congress
60 days to approve any
tariffs imposed on na-
tional security grounds. It
would also shift respon-
sibility for such investi-
gations away from Com-
merce to the Pentagon.
Some analysts say they
suspect that Trump in-
tends to use the tariffs as
leverage to pressure Japan
and Europe to limit their
auto exports to the United
States and to prod Japa-
nese and European auto-
makers to build more ve-
hicles at their U.S. plants.
“The 137,000 people who work for Toyota across
America deserve to know whether they are
considered a national security threat. And the
American consumer needs to know whether
the cost of every vehicle sold in the U.S. may
increase.”
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and the impact would re-
verberate across global
supply chains,” Moody’s
Investors Service said in
a report. “The already
weakening pace of global
expansion would magnify
global growth pressures,
causing a broader hit to
business and consumer
confidence amid tighten-
ing financial conditions.”
Congress could resist
the auto tariffs. Sens. Pat
Toomey, R-Penn., and
Mark Warner, D-Va., have
introduced legislation to
reassert
congressional
control over trade. Their
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Reinsch notes that
Trump’s top trade nego-
tiator, Robert Lighthizer,
worked in the Reagan
administration, which co-
erced Japan into accept-
ing “voluntary” limits on
its auto exports.
“This is the way Ligh-
thizer thinks,” Reinsch
said.
Even if the tariff threat
resulted in negotiations,
Europe and Japan would
have demands of their
own. A likely one: Com-
pelling the U.S. to drop
its longstanding 25 per-
cent tax on imported light
trucks.
Trump is “pursuing
something that, as near
as I can tell, the domestic
(auto) industry doesn’t
want,” Reinsch said.
“Once he pursues it, he
is going to be under pres-
sure to give up the one
thing the auto industry
really does want” — the
U.S. tariff on imported
light trucks.
For now, many in the
industry are upset that
the Commerce Depart-
ment report remains se-
cret, feeding uncertainty.
“The 137,000 people
who work for Toyota
across America deserve
to know whether they
are considered a national
security threat,” Toyota
said in a statement Tues-
day. “And the American
consumer needs to know
whether the cost of every
vehicle sold in the U.S.
may increase.”
The American Interna-
tional Automobile Deal-
ers Association this week
called the Commerce De-
partment’s investigation
“bogus.”
“Now, dealerships must
continue to operate under
a cloud of uncertainty,
not knowing if at any mo-
ment their products will
be slapped with 25 per-
cent tariffs, raising ve-
hicle and repair costs by
thousands of dollars and
slashing sales,” the asso-
ciation’s CEO, Cody Lusk,
said in a statement.
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