{"id":493919,"date":"2025-12-08T18:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-will-investigate-countries-that-use-puerto-rico-to-dump-rice\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T22:37:16","slug":"trump-will-investigate-countries-that-use-puerto-rico-to-dump-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/uncategorized\/trump-will-investigate-countries-that-use-puerto-rico-to-dump-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump will investigate countries that use Puerto Rico to &#8216;dump&#8217; rice."},"content":{"rendered":"<strong>Washington<\/strong>.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested this Monday that he will investigate countries like India, Thailand or China for allegedly using Puerto Rico as a gateway to sell rice in US territory at lower prices.\n\n&#8220;<strong>They shouldn&#8217;t be dumping<\/strong>,&#8221; the president stated during a roundtable with farmers at the White House.\n\nTrump asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to note the countries that, according to a farmer present at the event, would be trading rice unfairly.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;India, Thailand, and even China enter through Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico used to be one of the largest rice markets; we haven&#8217;t sent rice to Puerto Rico for years,&#8221; commented Meryl Kennedy, a Louisiana rice producer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe president questioned Bessent about the specific case of India and asked him if the Asian country has any tariff exemptions for rice, something that the Treasury Secretary denied.\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/internacionales\/trump-anuncia-una-normativa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump announces a federal regulation on AI<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\n&#8220;<strong>No, sir, we are still working on a trade agreement<\/strong>&#8220;, explained Bessent.\n\nSince August, Indian exports to the United States face high tariffs of 50% in retaliation for New Delhi&#8217;s purchase of Russian oil, and some agricultural products have exceptions to avoid a price increase in the United States, but this is not the case for rice.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington.- The President of the United States, Donald Trump, suggested this Monday that he will investigate countries like India, Thailand or China for allegedly using Puerto Rico as a gateway to sell rice in US territory at lower prices. &#8220;They shouldn&#8217;t be dumping,&#8221; the president stated during a roundtable with farmers at the White House. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24ur","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}