When Donald Trump asked which countries are dumping rice into America, Meryl Kennedy replied, "India, Thailand, and even China into Puerto Rico.

US President Donald Trump on Monday said that India should not be "dumping" rice into the US market and that he will "take care" of it, suggesting new tariffs on top of the already existing 50 per cent levy.

Trump claimed that tariffs would easily solve the “problem” during a roundtable in the White House with representatives of the farming and agriculture sector as well as key members of his cabinet, including treasury secretary Scott Bessent and agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins.

Meryl Kennedy, who runs her family's agribusiness, Kennedy Rice Mill, in Louisiana, told Trump that rice producers in the southern part of the country are "rea

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