Food Safety, Farm Group Lay Out CFIUS Case Against ChemChina-Syngenta Deal

In a 16-page letter to nine U.S. cabinet-level officials, Food & Water Watch has teamed up with the National Farmers Union to urge the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to block a proposed acquisition of Swiss agribusiness Syngenta by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ChemChina. The July 21 letter lays out a series of arguments ranging from an allegation that the deal would harm U.S. national security to questions involving energy security and the U.S. food supply, all...