Is it just me but does the defense in the article make no sense?
It says the California growers aren’t making enough to meet local demand anyways and the Moroccan olives aren’t exported directly to the US either. Yet, markets like these are intrinsically linked. California olives no doubt cost more than cheap foreign olives and would thus produce only as much as the price-demand ratio held. So cheapening up Moroccan olives would have the effect of driving down prices for foreign olives and thus lower demand locally... thus reducing the olives sold by Californian makers.
I mean, that’s my quick economics thinking on it but I don’t see how supposed gov’t intellectuals could overlook this.
I haven’t read the whole article. But if you take this story in conjunction with others - such as the shutting off of the water in the San Joaquin Valley - it starts to sound like the goal is to move the California agricultural industry from here to the globe - redistribution of jobs, aka “leveling the global playing field.” If they want to move our jobs and shut down jobs, they did it with the oil industry in the gulf, and they probably thought nobody would complain about CA AG - if nothing makes sense, always look to the main agenda and see if it fits. those are my thoughts.