Noted: In neighboring Wisconsin, agriculture represents only about 1 percent of the $287 billion economy. Still, in a state that brands itself “America’s dairyland” on car license plates, farmers have political clout. They were “already on edge because of the potential collapse of Nafta,” says Jon Pevehouse, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “When you put China tariffs on top of that, there’s a lot of unease.”
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